Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe DES MOINES, Iowa, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- Primates living at an ape house in Des Moines, Iowa, are being trained not to play with fire alarm pull-boxes after one of them sparked a false alarm. Firefighters raced to the Great Ape Trust of Iowa in response to a 911 emergency call triggered by the alarm, the Des Moines Register reported Tuesday. Advertisement The culprit was determined to be Panbanisha, a 25-year-old bonobo, once known as pygmy chimpanzees. Fire department spokesman Brian O'Keefe told Radio Iowa it was a first. "We get burglar alarms that are set off by dogs and cats running around the house but this is the first in the history of Des Moines Fire where we actually had an animal or primate go over there and pull the pull-station," he said. "We will ask the Great Ape Trust to educate the occupants of the seriousness of their actions." The primate center said it was also altering the pull-boxes to make them more tamper-resistant, local reports said.
