JEFFERSON COUNTY, Mo. (AP) - Authorities were busy Sunday working to recapture two chimpanzees that escaped from a sanctuary in eastern Missouri.
Both of the two escaped chimps had been tranquilized by Sunday evening, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff's department.
Deputies and animal control personnel along with staff at the Critter Lane Petting Zoo had established a perimeter to catch the chimps.
Sheriff’s office spokesman Grant Bissell said the plan was to tranquilize the chimps and then return them to the sanctuary that is about 35 miles southwest of St. Louis near the town of Festus. Bissell said one of these same chimpanzees escaped from the sanctuary just a few weeks ago.