This is the terrifying moment a family had a very close encounter with a chimpanzee which had escaped moments earlier from its enclosure at Belfast Zoo in the UK on Saturday. <br /><br />Dean McFaul filmed several chimpanzees using branches to scale the wall of their enclosure.<br /><br />Then, he and his partner Danielle Monaghan and her children encountered one of the apes on a path. <br /><br />The adult chimp, capable of killing a human, emerged from the bushes feet away from the family and walked onto the zoo path.<br /><br />McFaul can be heard in the video warning the children to stay back. <br /><br />Fortunately, the escapee seemed more interested in exploring its new surroundings than starting any trouble. <br /><br />Zookeeper Alyn Cairns said trees in their enclosure have been weakened by the storms, allowing the chimps to break them and use them as a ladder to escape.
