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Barbary macaques grooming (symbolic image)
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The animals are out in packs: around 25 monkeys have broken out of a zoo in Baden-Württemberg.
As the police announced on Thursday, current construction work in the park in Löffingen is likely to be the reason that the animals discovered a way out of their enclosure.
The animals were initially in a district.
Employees of the zoo had tried to recapture the Barbary macaques.
By the afternoon they had not been able to track the animals, as a police spokesman said.
The monkeys are said to be harmless, shy and fearful.
The police asked not to speak to the animals or feed them.
Passers-by should also not try to catch the animals.
In such a case, the monkeys could react less friendly, the police spokesman said.
lmd / dpa
