--- title: Chimpanzees Escape Kansas City Zoo description: The animals climbed up a log they had placed against the wall canonical: https://time.com/58702/chimps-escape-kansas-city-zoo/ author: Eliana Dockterman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-11T00:00:52.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:08:43.828Z og:title: Chimpanzees Escape Kansas City Zoo og:description: The animals climbed up a log they had placed against the wall og:url: https://time.com/58702/chimps-escape-kansas-city-zoo/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Chimpanzees Escape Kansas City Zoo twitter:description: The animals climbed up a log they had placed against the wall twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # 7 Chimps Escape Kansas City Zoo > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Apr 11, 2014 12:00 AM UTC  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Apr 11, 2014 12:00 AM UTC According to NBC affiliate, [@41ActionNews](https://twitter.com/41ActionNews?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) the chimpanzees are back in captivity [pic.twitter.com/0QUXbjyHrE](http://t.co/0QUXbjyHrE) — KSN News Wichita (@KSNNews) [April 10, 2014](https://twitter.com/KSNNews/status/454397582412771328?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) A group of chimpanzees made a break from the Kansas City zoo on Thursday. One of the chimps placed a 5-to-6-foot log against the wall, allowing him and six of his compatriots to scurry up the log and over the wall. They landed in an area only zookeepers can enter. Zoo officials evacuated the zoo as a precaution, though zoo director Randy Wisthoff said at no time was anyone in danger, according to the Kansas City _Star_. They eventually coaxed the animals back into their enclosures using carrots, celery, lettuce and malted milk balls. \[[_Kansas City Star_](http://www.kansascity.com/2014/04/10/4951136/chimps-on-the-loose-at-kc-zoo.html)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/58702/chimps-escape-kansas-city-zoo/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/58702/chimps-escape-kansas-city-zoo/"},"headline":"7 Chimps Escape Kansas City Zoo","datePublished":"2014-04-11T00:00:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:08:43.828Z","description":"The animals climbed up a log they had placed against the wall, but are now back in captivity","url":"https://time.com/58702/chimps-escape-kansas-city-zoo/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","Zoo","escape"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/58702/chimps-escape-kansas-city-zoo/","name":"7 Chimps Escape Kansas City Zoo"}}]}] ```