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US zoo shuts, staff try to wrangle monkey

US zoo staff in Massachusetts are trying to get a guenon monkey named Dizzy back into its enclosure.

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Staff at a US zoo are trying to get a monkey back into its enclosure.

WWLP-TV reports a 6kg guenon monkey named Dizzy escaped from its enclosure at The Zoo in Forest Park, in Springfield, Massachusetts, on Tuesday. The zoo is temporarily closed while employees try to recapture the animal.

The zoo says on its website that an employee was cleaning the enclosure and had walked out to help a visitor when Dizzy twisted a doorknob and let himself out. The zoo says that had never happened before.

Staff members located Dizzy inside the zoo and were trying to get him back into his enclosure on Tuesday afternoon.

The zoo says Dizzy poses no harm to the public.


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