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No telling what our ancient ancestors were up to but it’s safe to assume they were just as licentious as modern humans.

Good point! There's been a few unreported chimps on the loose in Florida with some pictures showing that they're obviously chimps. Someone who had an undocumented chimp is highly unlikely to report its escape to avoid the punishment that would be bound to follow. We even had some undocumented monkeys get loose in central Georgia this year that were seen swinging in the trees in a gated community.

A quick search says there’s 2,000 chimps in captivity in the US in various hands, wouldn’t surprise me if there were a few hundred more ‘off the books’. So up to a half dozen or so getting loose every year seems reasonable to me. And if they’re in a warmer area with plentiful food sources they’re in luck. Here’s a red deer we had roaming our property, no idea where it came from or where it went, has a tag in it’s ear. Despite multiple black bear/mountain lion sightings on the place have never gotten a picture of one. But the passing red deer which is as rare as a hen’s tooth practically poses for the camera, probably still out there somewhere.