DutchNews.nl, April 14, 2015
Officials at Burgers Zoo in Arnhem found
out to their cost how intelligent chimps are, when one knocked a drone which
was filming the apes’ enclosure out of the sky.
The drone was being used to
make footage for a television programme but did not go down well with one of
the inhabitants. Once the drone had been spotted, the primates armed themselves
with long sticks, the zoo reports on its website.
One chimp, a 23-year-old
female called Pushi, was sitting in a high tree when the drone came buzzing.
She managed to swipe it with the stick, causing it to fall to the ground. The
chimps then proceeded to dismantle the spy plane, which kept on filming during
the process, the zoo said.
Zoo spokesman Bas Lukkenaar told USA TODAY Network
it was no surprise that Pushi was the ‘main perpetrator.’.
‘Some are good at
throwing and others only produce poor shots and Pushi is a very clever and
capable chimpanzee,’ he said.
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