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Nearly 100 monkeys escape enclosure in Thailand
Officials in a Thailand city said authorities are scrambling to capture nearly 100 monkeys that broke out of their enclosure.
Officials confirmed the monkeys escaped on Tuesday morning from the Lopburi Municipality Animal Nursery in Pho Kao Ton subdistrict, Mueang Lopburi district, while staff managed to keep more than 1,000 other primates from following their lead.
Lopburi Mayor, Chamroen Salacheep, ordered local police and other agencies to round up the monkeys before they can cause damage to the community.
The municipality, which is famous for its annual Monkey Buffet festival, was formerly home to a large number of free-roaming long-tailed macaques, but the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation handed down orders in 2024 for about 2,500 of the animals to be rounded up and put into large enclosures.
The decision came after multiple incidents of monkeys becoming violent in the search for food.
An Alberta baseball team hosted a Guinness World Record attempt involving an Australian shepherd jumping across the backs of 56 people.
The Edmonton Riverhawks, an amateur summer collegiate team in the West Coast League, hosted the record attempt for the most jumps between people by a dog in one minute during a June 14 game.
Chardonnay, a 4-year-old Australian shepherd belonging to dog trainer Jennifer Fraser, bounded across the backs of 56 fans arranged in a straight line in the outfield.
The record’s rules set a time limit of one minute, but Chardonnay managed to set the record in just 16 seconds.
Fraser said she trained Chardonnay to jump onto her back a few years ago, and her trick repertoire has since expanded.
“Jumping across backs is just one of her many skills,” Fraser said.
Firefighters and an animal control officer in San Francisco came to the rescue of a wild parrot that got its head stuck between panes of glass on a third-floor balcony.
San Francisco Animal Care & Control said on social media that Officer Mullen responded alongside the San Francisco Fire Department on Sunday when a parrot was spotted with its head stuck between two panes of glass on the balcony of an under-construction building.
Firefighters went to the roof of a building and lowered a ladder to the balcony, where they were able to slide the bird upward to free its head.
“They wrapped the bird in a towel and handed it off to Officer Mullen, who checked out the bird,” the post said. “Thankfully they were fine: their wings, legs and neck were all OK, so Officer Mullen released the bird.”
The parrot made its way to a nearby tree to rest on a branch. UPI.com
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