TROUTMAN, N.C. (WBTV) - A monkey is on the loose after it escaped from an Iredell County zoo on Wednesday.

The owner of Zootastic, Scottie Brown, confirmed the monkey is from his zoo and said he and others were looking for it.

Brown said the monkey was able to get out of the zoo by pulling wire bars apart and sliding through them. Once the monkey got out, someone recorded a video of it climbing power lines in the Troutman area.

That video was viewed more than 41,000 times, and shared nearly 300 times within the first hour and a half that it was posted.

The zoo owner said Wednesday’s escape was the first time a monkey has gotten loose there, and by the time he and his team got to where the video was taken, the monkey was gone.

Brown said he believed that if the monkey is not found,

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