50 baboons escaped the Paris Zoo today. No one's quite sure how they did it.

Baboons.
(Image credit: BERTRAND GUAY/AFP/Getty Images)

This sounds decidedly less fun than a barrel of monkeys.

On Friday, visitors at the Paris Zoological Park were forced to flee after 50-odd baboons escaped their enclosures, prompting an evacuation of the zoo, The Telegraph reports. The mechanics of the mass escape remain a mystery: "It's not known how they got out," a source told the Daily Mail.

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Kelly O'Meara Morales

Kelly O'Meara Morales is a staff writer at The Week. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and studied Middle Eastern history and nonfiction writing amongst other esoteric subjects. When not compulsively checking Twitter, he writes and records music, subsists on tacos, and watches basketball.