Monkey on the lam in Roanoke

July 3, 2006 · Filed Under Roanoke Happenings 

Oops!  A monkey escaped from the Mill Mountain Zoo yesterday.  Be on the lookout for a 20-pound Japanese macaque on Mill Mountain or in the vicinity.  (In all seriousness though…the monkey can be dangerous if it feels threatened, so don’t try to capture it, call the zoo or authorities.)

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  1. Roanoke Virginia Real Estate » Blog Archive » Update: Oops spotted monkeying around behind hospital on July 7th, 2006 10:27 am

    [...] As a followup to my previous story on Mill Mountain Zoo’s errant monkey, Oops has been spotted foraging behind Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital.  Patients and staff watched the Japanese Macaque in the trees on the side of Mill Mountain before the zoo staff arrived with bananas and binoculars.  Oops promptly disappeared again. [...]

  2. Roanoke Virginia Real Estate » Blog Archive » Oops back behind bars on July 10th, 2006 8:56 am

    [...] Oops the errant snow monkey is officially captured according to this story by The Roanoke Times. He was spotted by a resident of the Garden City area behind her home in the Mill Mountain Estates neighborhood, about one mile from the zoo. After about two hours of following the monkey through the trees, the zoo staff and Roanoke City animal control officers tranquilized Oops and returned him home to his cage. The monkey will be quarantined for about thirty days to make sure it didn’t contract any diseases while on its weeklong sojourn in the woods of Mill Mountain. [...]

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