No one wants a bored monkey who won't monkey around. So a German zoo hired a clown to clown around for the monkeys and cheer them up. Zoo bosses hired a local entertainer to fool around in front of the chimps, baboons, gorillas and orangutans in zoo cages because a veterinarian said that bored monkeys were more often sick or aggressive monkeys.

A farm dog in eastern China has been nursing three newborn tiger triplets along with her own pups after the tigers' mother rejected them shortly after they were born. The dog, a mixed breed named Huani, has nursed other tigers in the past. Officials at Jinan Paomaling Wild Animal World in Shandong province said it is not uncommon for zoos to use dogs to nurse tigers who are rejected by their mothers.

A Queens man who led police on a wild chase through several New Jersey and New York counties Tuesday night stopped his vehicle hours later and jumped off a 140-foot-high bridge. The man, identified as 39-year-old John Fuller, was rescued from the cold waters of the Hudson River by the officers, and his condition was reported to be critical as of Wednesday morning. According to authorities, the chase began Tuesday evening after Fuller failed to stop for a routine truck inspection in Parsippany, NJ. When the officers tried to stop him he led them in a chase from across the George Washington Bridge and then north into Bronx and Westchester counties.

A Farmingdale, New York woman had a wild night out Thursday when she first hit an unidentified pedestrian with her vehicle, then hit a Nassau County Police Department patrol car as police tried to stop her and to top it all she was also involved in a hit-and-run with a New York State Police vehicle. Susan Kelly is now charged with second-degree assault, criminal mischief, DUI and leaving the scene of multiple accidents. The 48-year-old woman had to be stopped forcibly by troopers who rammed her car into a tree on a side street in Oakdale, New York.

Two Sumatran orangutans from Zoo Atlanta are playing video games as researchers plan to study cognitive, memory, reasoning and learning abilities of these intelligent species. Zoo visitors are very curious to see four-year-old Bernas use his lips and feet to play a game on the touch-screen monitor. However, he is not as computer-friendly as his mom Madu who loves to spend time playing computer games.