A $2,100 drone is history, after a chimp named Tushi knocked it down when it flew over her enclosure at the Royal Burgers' Zoo in the Netherlands.
The zoo sent the drone to get an up-close look at how the 23-year-old female and 13 other apes live. Tushi wasn't having it, though, so as soon as the drone was close by, the clearly annoyed chimp went up a tree and whacked the drone twice with a long branch. The second swat proved fatal, and the camera came crashing down.
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