Prima(te) ballerina: errant monkey in a tutu leads Missouri police a merry dance Sheriff’s deputies captured the monkey, which had opened a door to escape, before arrival of winter storm.
A monkey in a pink tutu that slipped out of a Missouri home was captured just before a winter storm slammed the state.
Photos posted on the sheriff’s department Facebook page show a deputy kneeling on the ground before the tutu-clad monkey approached and grabbed his hands.
The spider monkey was spotted on Friday afternoon at the intersection of two highways near the town of Otto, just to the south of the St Louis area.
The sheriff’s office said the small monkey was returned to its caretaker after “careful negotiations and some coaxing”.
