Around 50 baboons escape Paris zoo enclosure, forcing brief evacuation

By Staff Agence France-Presse

Posted January 26, 2018 2:08 pm

Updated January 26, 2018 2:45 pm

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Baboons preen each other at the Paris Zoological Park in the Bois de Vincennes. File/Reuters

Around 50 baboons escaped from their enclosure in Paris’s main zoo on Friday, forcing wardens to evacuate visitors while order was restored, the zoo said.

A worker at the attraction in the Vincennes area of the French capital spotted the breakout in the late morning when the primates were seen gathering in a service corridor used by employees.

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“Since then the baboons have been returned to their enclosure, except for four of them which have been located in this service zone and are being rounded up,” the zoo said in a statement to AFP.

The baboons did not reach public areas and the evacuation was ordered as a precaution, the zoo said.