After days of hunting

Scotland: Escaped monkey recaptured

A snow monkey made headlines, memes and a lot of excitement for days when it escaped from a Scottish zoo. Now the animal has been caught.

As the Highland Wildlife Park in the Cairngorms National Park announced on Thursday, the Japanese macaque Honshu was discovered early in the morning in a garden where it was feasting on bird food.

Caught with a tranquilizer dart
Animal keepers were able to tranquilize the monkey with a tranquilizer dart and catch him. He was then to be examined and reunited with his troop.

The zookeepers tracked the animal using drones:

Honshu had escaped from his enclosure on Sunday - apparently because he had a fight with his companions in the monkey enclosure. Since then, experts have been searching for the animal using drones and thermal imaging cameras.

The Japanese macaque's escape caused much amusement online, with numerous users posting images generated by artificial intelligence on social media showing the monkey in a tartan skirt fleeing from the police, on a highland cow or in full combat gear.