Watch: Chimpanzee escapes enclosure at Kolkata zoo, visitors panic

“Had she got a shock, she would have fallen into the water, which she did not,” said Samanta.

Zoo visitors say they saw the cheeky ape swimming in the moat. Some of the visitors screamed when they realised the chimpanzee had escaped its enclosure.

“There were three little chimpanzees. We were watching them. One of them was initially drinking water. Then suddenly it slipped into the water and swam to the wall where the glass partition ends. Seconds later it leaped out through a gap and landed outside. It was scary,” one eyewitness to the incident told Telegraph India.

Fortunately, Buri’s keeper was standing nearby when she made her jailbreak. The keeper had to feed her mango to coax her back into the enclosure. The chimpanzee walked back into her enclosure without fuss, and there was no need to use tranquilizers.

“There was no need for tranquilisation or force to control her,” Samanta said.