Interviewed in The Dodo

Chimpanzees recently escaped their enclosures at the Belfast Zoo, and as frightening as that is, the situation went about as well as it could have: the chimpanzees wandered around, didn't hurt anyone, didn't go out of the zoo, and eventually returned to their habitat peacefully.

I'm not exactly sure why this escape didn't go horribly wrong, but I'm so grateful it didn't!

The Dodo wrote about the event, and asked me to weigh in.

An escape is definitely one of the more frightening things that an animal care facility faces, but emergency plans can ensure that it is handled with minimal distress and hopefully - as in Belfast - no trauma.