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The male primate
went missing from Yagiyama Zoological Park and was seen roaming
in a neighborhood in Sendai.
Video footage showed the 24-year old chimp atop an electricity
pole, then swinging from power lines in between buildings.
A veterinarian was lifted up in a cherry picker to shoot him
with a tranquilizer gun.
The chimp made his way to another pole, before loosing his grip
and dangling from the lines as the sedative kicked in. He
eventually fell to the ground where rescue workers had gathered
with sheets.
Chacha has since made a full recovery, local media reported.
(Reporting By Reuters Television; Writing by Marie-Louise
Gumuchian)
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