Bill the Chimp’s Brief Adventure
An escaped chimpanzee is back at the Sequoia Park Zoo after a jaunt through a residential area that provided quite a sight for the Neighborhood Watch.
Bill wandered off Thursday night after vandals cut a hole in his cage, officials said.
The Eureka Police Department received a call about 10:45 p.m. from a neighbor who said the chimp was in a backyard on Glatt Street. Zoo staffers arrived with police to take Bill home.
“He was extremely stressed and excited,” said zoo supervisor Gretchen Ziegler. She said changes to zoo security would be made immediately.
The 59-year-old chimp came to the Sequoia Park Zoo from a European circus in July 1957.
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