A lighter piece of news from Saturday: 17-year-old world-famous squirrel monkey, Banana Sam was returned to his cage Saturday after a month of quarantine, and most of his cage-mates left him alone and did not give him too tough a time about getting kidnapped. Zookeepers at the S.F. Zoo report much "vocalizing" among the seventeen other squirrel monkeys upon his return, but Sam "laid low so that nobody would pick on him, and now he's fully re-acclimated."

As you'll surely recall, Banana Sam was abducted in late December by someone who cut through some netting above the squirrel monkey enclosure. He quickly began tweeting about life on the outside, and gained citywide, then nationwide notoriety. He was returned safely, if shaken, by someone claiming to have found him in Stern Grove on New Year's Eve.

Things still seem fishy about the circumstances of Banana Sam's return, and police are apparently still investigating. No reward has been paid.

[Chron]