Gibbon Escapes Its Enclosure At San Antonio Zoo (Video)

SAN ANTONIO — A white-cheeked gibbon broke out of its enclosure at the San Antonio zoo on Friday before being captured during its brief escape.

The juvenile gibbon, a type of ape, found a hole in the netting over its enclosure, and was able to swing atop the canopy toward surrounding trees, the local Fox station reported. Zoo officials managed to capture the primate unharmed just before noon.

A zoo patron filmed the gibbon's freedom flight on cell phone video. Officials at the zoo have since inspected the enclosure to safeguard any other potential breaches.

Gibbons are common in subtropical rain forests throughout eastern Bangladesh, northeast India, southern China and Indonesia.

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