"But the zoo’s hopes of finding the monkeys will be buoyed by the success of a similar operation only four years ago.
On that occasion a three-year-old capuchin called Tony went on the run for five days.
He was eventually caught by the zoo’s owner David Gill wandering around in a local graveyard."
A spokesman for Cumbria police said: ‘Police were called today at 9.11am with confirmation that a second monkey has escaped.
‘This follows a juvenile female Capuchin monkey that escaped at the weekend and has been sighted in the Dalton-in-Furness area.
‘These animals do not pose an immediate risk to the public, however it is capable of biting or scratching anyone who attempts to approach it.’
An incident at the 17-acre zoo, which first opened in 1994, was the subject of an inquest last month.
Animal keeper Sarah McClay, 24, was mauled to death by a tiger that had access to a restricted corridor in which she was standing.
She had been working in the supposedly safe keeper’s corridor, from which she could access the tiger pens through metal doors, which were bolted shut.
But the inquest was told that a bolt on a door between the tiger’s pen and the corridor used by keepers had been ‘defective’."
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