The cu­ra­tor at the Em­per­or Val­ley Zoo is to probe cir­cum­stances around the es­cape of a chim­panzee from her en­clo­sure this morn­ing.

This morn­ing at around 8:30 a.m, Su­di, the lone chim­panzee at the Em­per­or Val­ley Zoo, Port-of-Spain, es­caped from her cage in­to the gen­er­al zoo com­pound.

Ac­cord­ing to a re­lease from the zoo, cu­ra­tor Nir­mal Bip­tah im­me­di­ate­ly put in­to ef­fect the stan­dard op­er­at­ing pro­ce­dures and Su­di was re­cap­tured.

Su­di was not in­jured dur­ing the in­ci­dent, the re­lease said.

It fur­ther said, "At this time the Zoo was not yet open to the pub­lic, and all work­ers were alert­ed to her pres­ence in the zoo."

"Su­di, who was hand-raised since birth in Cana­da and has been with the Zoo for over thir­ty years is ha­bit­u­at­ed to hu­man pres­ence. She was able to main­tain a very calm pres­ence, ex­plor­ing the sur­round­ings in an in­quis­i­tive man­ner. She was close­ly mon­i­tored by her keep­ers dur­ing this time, who tried to coax her back in­to her en­clo­sure," the re­lease said.

"On stand­by was the Cu­ra­tor in a state of pre­pared­ness to se­date her once this be­came nec­es­sary. This took place fol­low­ing her climb on an over­hang­ing tree in­to the area op­po­site the Zoo. To pre­vent any in­jury to the an­i­mal, she was se­dat­ed as she de­scend­ed from the tree."