A spider monkey, new to Washington. Park Zoon in Michigan City, Indiana (U.S.A) used a garden house
to scale the walls of a moat and a break for freedom.

Workers were cleaning the moat at the time. Zoo Director Johnny Martinez says workers had figured the
monkeys would remain inside their enclosure during the cleaning even though moat was empty of water.

However, one monkey made it past the moat, grabbed the house and jumped onto the roof of a water filtration plant.

The 2001 staff recaptured adventurous monkey at a nearby bout dealership, where they found it perched atop a white and blue speedboat.

Martinez says the freedom seeking monkey is sociable and was not any danger to people.