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UPDATE, midnight, July 3 (Jersey time): The baboon has been found after she travelled through two counties! (Yes, the baboon is a female.) — Thanks for all your comments! We were “down the shore” somewhat in the vicinity of where the baboon was found and I admit, I did look around a bit to see if I spotted “anything unusual.”
After signing a state budget from which he’d slashed $900 million, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie left for a two-week vacation, says the Star-Ledger.
It seems another NJ resident is also taking a vacation over the long holiday weekend.
Meet Jersey Baboon.
The Star-Ledger reports that, around 2pm Thursday afternoon, a woman called police to tell them she had seen a baboon on her deck:
The call came 15 minutes after a driver reported seeing a baboon on the south side of I-195, prompting police and representatives of the nearby Six Flags Great Adventure Wild Safari park to rush to the woman’s house on Anderson Street, said township police.
Six Flags is indeed in Jackson, where the woman who saw the baboon on her deck lives. Indeed, her house is only about a half-mile from what is billed as the “largest drive-thru safari outside of Africa” and which has, yes, a Monkey Jungle.
Apparently the MIA primate is not the first to escape from the park. Jackson police spokesman Lt. Andrew Cheney says that baboon escapes have been rare in the past decade, as Six Flags has installed double-fencing, and one of the fences is electrified. Six Flags itself said that it does not have a report of a missing baboon; however, as a number of baby baboons have recently been born, the park does not currently have an accurate count of its baboon population. The baboon does have a microchip, as CBS News points out.
Two residents in developments near the park also reported seeing a baboon on Friday, says the 101.5 news radio station.
In imitation (I didn’t want to write “aping”) of the frenzy, if it may be called that, after an Egyptian asp went missing from the Bronx Zoo, someone has created a Twitter account with the name of @NewJerseyBaboon — though also another Twitter account, @JerseyBaboon, also exisits. Detailing the supposed antics of a monkey on the run on the Turnpike, Garden State Parkway, and heading down the Shore is fine Fourth of July fun:
What are the residency rules in New York. Thinking of running for @RepWeiner’s old seat.
I’m told NJ’s state mammal is the horse. Well, we’ll just see about that.
Assuming the baboon is from Six Flags, hoping he is safe and found soon (down the Shore or on my deck, who knows) and that all the other baboons in Six Flags are currently accounted for.
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+ add your own~She must have had a bad case of "cabin fever!~
Thank you for the update. Agree with Lilithe: Zoos should be abolished except in cases where endangered species are rehabilitated.
Hope she is OKAY....................
Hope the baboons will be OK. It's very dangerous for them and they are used to being cared for, so I have a great concern for them. Seems like the baboons are smarter than the safari's keepers if it's this easy to get out of their enclosure.
leave her alone some timid stupid minded wimp of a farmer turned her in she would have scavenged for berreys insects ect . she waas harming no one. always some well meaning jerk around to ruin everything
It's just a Jersey shore actress taking a break.
She just wanted a week down the shore !
And what did they expect?
Probably sight seeing.Would that be a reverse of a safari,seeing people in their natural habitat and in cars?
just wanted to see the sites,
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