Update: Oops spotted monkeying around behind hospital
July 7, 2006 · Filed Under Roanoke Happenings
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.
Crazy snow monkey! Someone should adopt him!
On a whim, I searched to see how far this story has gone, the AP picked it up and it has been reported in–
- British Columbia, Canada
- Washington, DC
- Cayman Islands
- Cleveland, OH
- India
- South Africa
- Connecticut
- and many more places!
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i saw this on the news! all the way over here in the midwest! i would so adopt him… but macaques are actually super agressive and mean. but still, a monkey! we know how i love monkeys!!! ha ha ha!
[...] 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. [...]