It ’s not quite an escape from Alcatraz , but an orangutan at Greenville Zoo in South Carolina made a daring bid for exemption over the weekend by open wire in its coop . The incident was captured   on camera by a visitor , as shocked onlookers watched .

The male orangutan is called Kumar , and at about 11.30am EDT ( 4.30pm BST ) on Sunday , it broke the wires in the roof of its enclosure and climbed out . It did n’t cause any major problem , but it did chill out up there for a little while . The zoological garden was put on lockdown until the animal was render .

" He is , personality heady , just untried and curious , ” Jeff Bullock from Greenville Zoo toldFox Carolina , who break up the story . “ orangutang are just so sassy it ’s like a really sassy teenager who ’s always got ta look for anything they can get into . ”

The escape was captured on photographic camera by a visitant ring Emilie S. The zoological garden remained on lockdown for 30 minutes , with visitors moved into dependable areas like cafes while the orang was still on the roof .

urine hoses and fire extinguishers were used to get Kumar back in the John Cage , with zoo workers then fasten the net with padlocks . They had a flit gun ready too , but that was n’t needed . A female Pongo pygmaeus who was also in the enclosure did not follow Kumar .

In the past , we sure have n’t been scant of tarradiddle about escaped animals . June 2016 , for model , sawtwo capybarasescape from Toronto ’s High Park Zoo , which engender a rather hilariousTwitter account . That same menagerie had also see a colorful peacock slip out unnoticed in 2015 .

April 2016 also project an octopus call Inkymake a breaking for itfrom the National Aquarium in New Zealand . It managed to make it into the Pacific Ocean , so it ’s improbable he ’ll be catch again – elicit imagery of Hank the devilfish in Finding Dory .

pretty more alarmingly , in January 2017 a scorpionescaped from a passenger ’s bagon a train service from London to Edinburgh . It got out and commence wandering around the geartrain , with transport police force then boarding the train and re - catch it .

So Kumar get together an telling tilt of break loose animals . Thankfully it ended without any creature , orangutan or human , being harmed .