A love-sick monkey desperate to escape from a zoo in UK to be with her mate has learned how to short circuit an electric fence – with a wet blade of GRASS.
Bella, a Sulawesi crested black macaque, was left distraught after zookeepers removed dominant male Malino from her. She and a group of female pals managed to clamber out and search for him, prompting staff at Jersey’s Durrell Wildlife Park to erect an electric fence. But lovestruck Bella refuse to give up and soon devised a way to short the power by prodding the charged wire with wet foliage. Keepers rigged up a second layer of fencing but crafty Bella simply adapted her trick by balancing a blade of grass across the two.
