Orangutan escapes from Perth zoo enclosure and mingles with visitors

Zoo is conducting a review after Teliti, a five-year-old female, appears to have climbed a shade sail and jumped over enclosure outer wall onto boardwalk

Perth zoo is conducting a security review of its award-winning orangutan enclosure after one curious inhabitant managed to escape and mingled with human visitors in the public viewing area on Sunday.

Teliti, a five-year-old female orangutan who was born at the zoo, appears to have climbed up one of the exhibit's shade sails about 11.30am before jumping to the outer wall of the enclosure and climbing onto the boardwalk.