Chimp escapes Las Vegas backyard – again

Published August 12, 2012 4:00am ET



LAS VEGAS (AP) — A chimpanzee who rampaged through a Las Vegas neighborhood last month made a second escape from her backyard enclosure this weekend, but her caretaker thinks she had human help this time.

Timmi De Rosa says the 13-year-old chimp, CJ, didn’t get loose Saturday by bending steel bars without help. She thinks someone let CJ out of her cage. De Rosa says the 180-pound animal was captured quickly and was never a threat to neighbors.

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