Chimpanzees killed after zoo escape in Sweden
STOCKHOLM – Four chimpanzees escaped from their enclosure in a Swedish zoo and roamed freely before he was captured and euthanized on Wednesday, according to Swedish media.
Annika Troselius, spokesperson for the group that runs Furuvik Zoo in Stockholm, tells Expressen that the animals were euthanized because there was not enough tranquilizers for all of them.
She said the chimpanzees are strong and dangerous animals and the zoo’s main focus “is that no human gets hurt.”
Troselius told Sweden’s radio that a fifth chimpanzee is believed to have left its enclosure, although there were no other immediate details.
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It was unclear how the mammals were able to escape from their enclosure.
Furuvik Zoo is located near Gävle, (about 100 miles north of Stockholm, and had seven chimpanzees. It is part of an amusement park. According to the park’s website, it is also the only primate research station in the Nordics.