‘Bananas’: Spider monkey found wearing pink tutu nabbed in Missouri police operation
A monkey in a pink tutu that slipped out of a US home has been captured just before a winter storm slammed into the area where it escaped.
“Bananas” is how the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office in Missouri described the apprehension of the primate in a Facebook post.
The spider monkey was spotted on Friday afternoon at the intersection of two highways near the town of Otto, just to the south of the St Louis area.
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The sheriff’s office said the small monkey was returned to its caretaker after “careful negotiations and some coaxing”.
Photos posted on the sheriff’s department Facebook page show a deputy kneeling on the ground before the tutu-clad monkey approached and grabbed his hands.
The sheriff’s office said it was a great example of how officers “having to be prepared to handle whatever the job throws at them”.
The timing was fortuitous. A winter storm packing snow and ice hit the region on Saturday, closing roads and sending temperatures plunging.
