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Not a monkey business but primate on the loose at IKEA
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December 12, 2012, Wednesday
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A stylishly dressed five-month-old monkey that caused a frenzy as it wandered around the parking lot of a Toronto-area IKEA store will be transferred to a sanctuary, according to city officials.
Police were called to the furniture store on Sunday afternoon in Canada's most populous city after the monkey broke loose from its cage and began running around a parking area.
One witness, Bronwin Page, said the animal, identified as a male Rhesus macaque, looked scared as it scurried between the ever growing crowd of people. "We quickly realized it was a monkey wearing a coat and a diaper," Page told CBC radio. "That was pretty bizarre."
Customers spotted the monkey - clad in a pint-sized shearling coat - wandering around the store's parking lot. The baby monkey, named Darwin, made its way through rows of parked cars and ended up outside a set of store doors.
IKEA staff lured the primate into a corner before calling police, who contacted the Animal Services department, said Staff Sergeant Ed Dzingala.
"It was just outside the store, just in a corner area where the monkey had nowhere to go, but it was pretty scared," Dzingala said. He said the monkey had escaped its crate in a parked car.
The owners surrendered the monkey to authorities, who will donate the animal to an area primate sanctuary.
"He appears to be in good health," Toronto Animal Services supervisor Mary Lou Leiher told reporters, adding that the owners have been fined US$240 for breaking the city's prohibited-animal by law.
Leiher said there's a chance the monkey is carrying Herpes B and that having it live in a city puts both the animal and human beings at risk.
Police were called to the furniture store on Sunday afternoon in Canada's most populous city after the monkey broke loose from its cage and began running around a parking area.
One witness, Bronwin Page, said the animal, identified as a male Rhesus macaque, looked scared as it scurried between the ever growing crowd of people. "We quickly realized it was a monkey wearing a coat and a diaper," Page told CBC radio. "That was pretty bizarre."
Customers spotted the monkey - clad in a pint-sized shearling coat - wandering around the store's parking lot. The baby monkey, named Darwin, made its way through rows of parked cars and ended up outside a set of store doors.
IKEA staff lured the primate into a corner before calling police, who contacted the Animal Services department, said Staff Sergeant Ed Dzingala.
"It was just outside the store, just in a corner area where the monkey had nowhere to go, but it was pretty scared," Dzingala said. He said the monkey had escaped its crate in a parked car.
The owners surrendered the monkey to authorities, who will donate the animal to an area primate sanctuary.
"He appears to be in good health," Toronto Animal Services supervisor Mary Lou Leiher told reporters, adding that the owners have been fined US$240 for breaking the city's prohibited-animal by law.
Leiher said there's a chance the monkey is carrying Herpes B and that having it live in a city puts both the animal and human beings at risk.
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