Tenerife chimps return to routine monkey business

The chimpanzee who went out to a bar, has returned to routine at the zoo, reports Diario Tenerife.

Their report also tells us it was the daughter who spent a couple of hours in a nearby bar on Friday, after escaping from the Oasis del Valle zoological park in La Orotava, in company of her mother.

Adolescent vandals, huh? :)

One of the staff from the park told Spanish news agency, EFE, that the chimp is fine and has returned to normality, commenting that the injuries the two year old suffered, after burning herself on a grill in the bar's kitchen, are minor.

The mother, apparently, took her carer by the hand and presented no problems in being taken home. The daughter probably felt lost and scared without mum and, may have chosen that bar as it's the same colour as the zoo center.

This is the first escape of a similar nature from Oasis del Valle in the more than 20 years it's been open, this employee underlined. Until a couple of years ago, they did have tigers, panthers and other wild animals, but the owners are moving towards making it into a farming school, in which there are mostly domestic animals, although they also keep ostriches, camels and llamas.