If there’s been a better headline this year than ‘Stylish but illegal monkey found roaming Toronto Ikea’, then we haven’t seen it.
That’s what the geniuses at the Toronto Globe and Mail came up with for what is a quite bizarre and quite brilliant tale about a disoriented monkey that was found wandering outside an Ikea in the city on Sunday clad in an impressive shearling coat and a diaper.
A headline like that was always going to attract wider coverage and freelance writer Michael Moran was one of a slew of people giving it a well-deserved bigging up on Twitter today.
As it turns out, the rhesus macaque monkey, a species which is illegal in the state of Ontario, had managed to free itself from its crate in a car in the Ikea car park and went for a stroll.
Not surprisingly, it wasn’t long before pictures of the little creature started to spread like wildfire on Twitter, while there were also two parody accounts created.
Staff at Ikea contacted animal control and the monkey was kept confined until animal services arrived, before it was eventually reunited with its owners.
What a brave, and incredibly stylish, little guy.
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