From CNN:

"LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- A 42-year-old chimpanzee who is toilet-trained and can eat with a knife and fork is believed to be at large in a Southern California forest after escaping his cage.


Moe the chimp, seen in a file photo, has been missing since Friday.


The chimp, named Moe, disappeared Friday from Jungle Exotics, which trains animals for the entertainment industry.

He wandered into a house next door, surprising construction workers, who saw him head for a nearby mountain.

A weekend search in the San Bernardino National Forest 50 miles east of Los Angeles came up empty.

"I yelled his name out for hours, for hours, with no one else around. Nothing. Not even a hoot," said LaDonna Davis, who owns Moe with husband St. James Davis.

The Davises, who raised Moe in suburban West Covina for more than three decades, contracted a helicopter to fly over the forest Saturday and Sunday, hoping the noise would flush Moe out of hiding, said Mike McCasland, who's serving as the couple's spokesman. "That's the one thing that does spook him," he said.

"We think he may be hunkered down near a water source," said McCasland. "We think he's in a contained area a quarter-mile away, but he's probably disoriented, and the brush is extremely heavy."


Searchers also were making noise and calling Moe's name as they scoured the forest.

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That does it. When they find out it was Chongo's doing, this campaign is over. Claiming he liberated her by stealth because he also wanted to be toilet trained and to learn to eat with a fork, will not be accepted as an excuse and the New York Times can't keep on turning a blind eye. They'll have to run it. I'm afraid the balloon's gone up now, Little Hawk...