It was literally a thrill a minute as police and animal officials in Japan tried to recapture a chimpanzee as he played about among electrical wires. Yikes. The agile simian was hit by a sedative arrow and finally became so drowsy he lost his grip and fell unhurt into blanket or sheet held by rescuers. The chimp had escaped from the Yagiyama Zoological Park in Sendai city, Miyagi Prefecture, in the early afternoon Thursday and was on the loose for more than an hour. The video is quite thrilling heard in excited Japanese
