{"id":181842,"date":"2024-02-01T14:23:09","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T20:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/escaped-monkey-hunted-with-drone"},"modified":"2024-02-01T14:23:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T20:23:09","slug":"escaped-monkey-hunted-with-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/escaped-monkey-hunted-with-drone","title":{"rendered":"Escaped Monkey Hunted With Drone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/escaped-monkey-hunted-with-drone3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rzss.org.uk\/news\/article\/22606\/escaped-macaque\/\" class=\"\">recaptured<\/a> the escaped Japanese macaque that led authorities on a high-profile chase for nearly five days.<\/p>\n<p>The macaque in question escaped its enclosure at Scotland\u2019s Highland Wildlife Park zoo on Sunday, prompting a frenzied search throughout the region. Japanese macaques, of course, aren\u2019t exactly Scottish locals; the event has reportedly been quite the ordeal for the area, especially considering how deft the monkey proved at evading recapture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou would think we were chasing an international fugitive,\u201d area local Carl Nagle, who caught sight of the macaque on Sunday night as it chomped down on the Scotsman\u2019s backyard birdseed, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/01\/30\/world\/europe\/japanese-monkey-escaped-scotland.html\" class=\"\">told <em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a> earlier this week, \u201cinstead of an innocent monkey.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) has recaptured the escaped Japanese macaque that led authorities on a high-profile chase for nearly five days. The macaque in question escaped its enclosure at Scotland\u2019s Highland Wildlife Park zoo on Sunday, prompting a frenzied search throughout the region. Japanese macaques, of course, aren\u2019t exactly Scottish locals; the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}