Cha Cha did the electric slide.
A chimp named Cha Cha escaped from a zoo in Sendai, Japan on Thursday afternoon, and led authorities on a two-hour chase that ended in the animal being shot down from a powerline with a tranquilizer gun.
Employees at Yagiyama Zoological Park discovered Cha Cha’s cage was vacant at 1:20 p.m. local time, according to Japan Times.
Nearly two hours later, Cha Cha was spotted running across electrical wires in a residential neighborhood.
The two-hour ordeal ended in shocking fashion when authorities shot the chimp with a tranquilizer gun.
At one point, the animal was near an elementary school, trapping more than 400 students inside the building after final classes were dismissed.
“When I saw (the chimpanzee) on television, it was quite big, so we thought it was dangerous to let the children out,” school Vice Principal Takashi Yamaguchi said.
The two-hour ordeal ended in shocking fashion when authorities shot the chimp with a tranquilizer gun.
The zoo does not know how Cha Cha escaped, but police are investigating.