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Published: February 20, 2009
Primate makes great escape
BY SUSAN SIMPSON
A 70-pound orangutan escaped his enclosure Wednesday for about 15 minutes before Oklahoma City Zoo workers got him back into a holding area of the Great EscApe exhibit.

Shortly after 10 a.m., Elok, an 8-year-old Sumatran orangutan, climbed into a dry moat surrounding his enclosure and over an exterior wall into a flower bed next to a guest path.

No guests were in the immediate area at the time, said zoo officia...

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