A monkey which had been missing in the Highlands for more than five days has been successfully captured. The Japanese macaque – called Honshu – escaped from the Highland Wildlife Park at Kincraig, near Aviemore, on Sunday. The seven-year-old male was spotted in a garden at a house near the park on Thursday morning. The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland’s drone team observed the animal until he was shot with a tranquiliser dart and taken back to the park.
The RZSS, which runs the Highland Wildlife Park, received a call to special hotline at about 10:00. Alan Bannon, its head of communications, said it was a relief to finally capture the monkey.
He told BBC Scotland News: “We got a phone call from a member of the public saying they had spotted the animal in their garden helping himself to a bird feeder.
Keith Gilchrist, the wildlife park’s living collections operations manager, said Honshu would be reintroduced to other adults within the troop.
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