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'Ingenious' Ape Mounts Bid to Escape Zoo

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ADELAIDE, Australia (May 10) - A zoo in Australia was evacuated Sunday after an "ingenious" 137-pound orangutan short-circuited an electric fence and hopped a wall surrounding her enclosure.
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2009-05-10 10:01:10

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Karta wasn\'t monkeying around when she nearly escaped from an Australian zoo. The 27-year-old orangutan short-circuited a fence by jamming a stick into wires connected to it and then climbed a wall by going up a pile of debris she made. But after sitting on top of the fence for a bit, the smart ape went back in her enclosure.