Life (almost) imitates art

As the Mainichi Daily News reports, following its six-hour furlough, the monkey that escaped from Tokyo's Ueno Zoo was finally caught in the basement of a Taito-Ward restaurant.

"The Japanese macaque was one of 23 released into the zoo's monley enclosure on Jan. 24 at around 9:30am. As soon as it was release, it scaled the enclosure's 4.5-meter concrete wall and esacped outside the zoo."

For those familiar with the children's book Curious George Finds a Job, the only deviation from that plot and this episode is that the Japanese monkey didn't first hide in the straw of his friend the elephant before escaping. Also, perhaps had the monkey had more time to settle into the restaurant environment before capture, it too would have impressed the chef with its plate-washing dexterity and landed a job as a window washer.