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Monkeying around in Regent's Park

Friday 28 July, 2006

It would seem that last week's adventures of SpongeBob the squirrel monkey have inspired some of his long-tailed relatives from London Zoo to try a little travelling of their own.

A number of squirrel monkeys from the Regent's Park zoo decided that yesterday was the day to jump the fence, swinging from trees inside their enclosure to nearby branches and to freedom.

However, the monkeys then seemed to get cold feet and have remained in the same area, while their security "breach" is being investigated and rectified.

"The monkeys are closely supervised at all times and are currently being monitored within Regent's Park," a spokesperson for the zoo said.

"We identified where the breach in the enclosure was occurring and had tree surgeons working to rectify that."

However, this is not the first time the cheeky tribe of 12 monkeys has posed keepers some problems. The 11 female and one lucky male monkey have previously been naughty enough to try to pinch visitors' mobile phones.

It is rumoured that the squirrel monkeys had heard that south London, the site of SpongeBob's rescue, was the place to be for primates in the capital and were working on a route to the nearest Tube station.

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