Banana Sam returned to San Francisco Zoo

[obamanut2012]

Banana-Sam, a much-loved squirrel-monkey stolen from his enclosure at the San Francisco Zoo, has been safely returned, officials said.

The monkey was found Saturday night -- a day after he disappeared from the zoo -- at a park by a passer-by who spotted the primate in the bushes, the San Francisco Police Department said in a statement.

The passer-by coaxed the monkey from the bushes into his backpack, and then called the authorities, according to the statement.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/01/us/california-missing-monkey/index.html?hpt=hp_t3


Thank goodness the passerby found him and "captured" him! The people who stole him and abandoned him to die are sick.

I posted this in GD, since his theft from the zoo was psoted in LBN.

[magical thyme]

1. thank you for this news

I was sickened by his theft, so afraid it would not end well.

How despicable that he was abandoned to die. Thank goodness, indeed, for the passerby who spotted him and cared enough to get him back home!

[obamanut2012]

4. I was, too!

They could have put him in a cat carrier and left him at a hospital with one of the baby drops. They would have called the police.

[hunter]

2. I'm happy to see this!

Glad the guy is back home and not lost in the human wilderness.

[Cirque du So-What]

3. Nice way to start the new year: a bit of good news for a change

I hope the SF Zoo fixes their enclosures and makes stealing monkeys much more difficult.

[obamanut2012]

5. They've closed the squirrel monket exhibit for noe

For both that reason, and because the little monkeys were terrified by Banana Sam's kidnapping.