Did The Rise of the Planet of the Apes happen in real life?

By Isabel Vargas Claros

Nothing too similar to the movie The Rise of the Planet of Apes happened in this zoo.

Yesterday around 8:00 in the morning at the Emperor Valley Zoo in Port of Spain Sudi, a chimpanzee who is in between 40 and 45 years old escaped her cage. Just as Sudi was about to take a walk around the zoo, the zookeepers noticed something strange walking around the zoo. As soon as Sudi’s escape was discovered the manager, Nirmal Biptah initiated procedures in order to capture Sudi.

             The zoo opening at 10 in the morning meant that there would be no visitors at the zoo when Sudi was out of her cage. Sudi, being hand-raised since birth in Canada, was already accustomed with human presence. While Sudi was still out of her cage, she was able to keep calm while exploring her surroundings. While she was exploring her surroundings, Sudi’s keepers were keeping an eye out for her and they were trying to persuade her into enclosure.

Manager, Nirmal Biptah was also keeping an eye out for Sudi just in case he needed to sedate her. After a while Sudi climbed a tree near the zoo and as soon as Biptah noticed she was up there he sedated her and Sudi went back to enclosure without any injuries.

Around 4 p.m Sudi was awakening from her seduction.

Biptah was surprised Sudi escaped from her cage because it was her first time escaping and although the zoo does not know how she escaped they are still investigating to see what went wrong with the cages that that has been secure for almost 30 years.

            Although chimpanzees do not live for a very long time in the wild, they are very intelligent creatures who are the closest species related to humans.