Story highlights "This is the first such disruption we've had by a monkey," utility says 
 
 The monkey survived and was taken in by wildlife authorities 
 
 (CNN) Talk about monkey business. 
 
 Kenya -- yes, the entire country -- was left without power for 15 minutes Tuesday after a rogue monkey got into a power station and triggered a blackout. 
 
 That's 4.7 million households and businesses. 
 
 The primate fell onto a transformer at the Gitaru hydroelectric power station, according to Kenya Electricity Generating Company, or KenGen, which owns the facility. The station is the largest generator in the country. 
 
 "This monkey tripped a transformer. This triggered a cascading effect on the other generators which ended up disrupting power generation and distribution in the whole country," Kenya Power spokesman Eric Kathenya said. 

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 NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya's power generation company says a monkey caused a three-hour nationwide blackout. 
 
 The Kenya Electricity Generation Company said in a statement late Tuesday that a monkey climbed onto the roof of the Gitaru Power Station in central Kenya and fell onto a transformer, tripping it. 
 
 The company said this caused other machines in the station to trip, resulting in the loss of 180MW from the plant, triggering a national blackout. The statement did not say whether monkey survived. 
 
 The blackout lasted more than three hours Tuesday before power was restored. 
 
 The company said that its facilities are fenced with an electric fence, and that this was an isolated incident. 

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 Image copyright KenGen Kenya Image caption KenGen posted an image of the offending monkey, that survived 
 
 A single monkey caused a nationwide blackout in Kenya after falling on to a crucial piece of equipment. 
 
 The monkey fell on a transformer at the Gitaru hydroelectric power station on Tuesday, electricity provider KenGen said in a statement. 
 
 The transformer then tripped, resulting in the loss of 180 megawatts of power and triggering a blackout across Kenya. 
 
 Power was restored almost four hours later and the monkey survived its adventure, KenGen said. 
 
 It has now been taken in by the Kenya Wildlife Service. 
 
 "KenGen power installations are secured by electric fencing which keeps away marauding wild animals," the statement said. 
 
 "We regret this isolated incident and the company is looking at ways of further enhancing security at all our power plants." 
 
 The Business Daily Africa website reported that businesses bore the brunt of Tuesday's blackout. 
 
 Many had installed generators as a result of previous blackouts, it said. 

 NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenyan consumers have long suspected a little monkey business when it comes to their power bills, but the news making its way around the country on Wednesday was almost too much to believe. 
 
 A nationwide blackout that knocked out lights, severed internet service and paralyzed countless businesses for more than three hours on Tuesday was caused by a monkey, the electricity company announced. 
 
 The monkey, which appeared to be of the Vervet species, with a collar of white fur, climbed onto the roof of the Gitaru Power Station and fell or jumped onto a transformer. The transformer tripped, which in turn tripped other machines at the hydroelectric power station, setting off a nationwide blackout, the Kenya Electricity Generation Company, or KenGen, said. 
 
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 “KenGen power installations are secured by electric fencing, which keeps away marauding wild animals,” the company said. “We regret this isolated incident and the company is looking at ways of further enhancing security at all our power plants.” 
 
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 The monkey survived and was given to Kenya’s wildlife services, KenGen said. The company posted a photograph on Facebook showing the animal on the transformer, crouching shyly. 
 
 Vervet monkeys, which are usually about two feet long, not including the tail, can be pesky creatures. They can be seen everywhere in Kenya, and they often travel in packs, scampering along power lines, snacking on mangoes in backyards and even sneaking into kitchens through open windows to pinch a banana or two.
– A "rogue" operative caused a nearly four-hour power outage across Kenya on Tuesday, the BBC reports. That agent of blackout chaos: a monkey that fell onto a transformer of the country's leading electric power-generating company, per the AP. In a statement on its Facebook page, accompanied by a photo of the primate perched on the transformer, KenGen (short for Kenya Electricity Generating Company) noted the animal had scrambled its way up the Gitaru power station and onto its roof, subsequently falling onto the transformer and tripping it. This was the trigger for a domino-like effect in which other machines at Gitaru started tripping as well, resulting in the loss of 180 megawatts of power. The ensuing blackout not only shut off the lights across the nation, but also cut access to the Internet and "paralyzed countless businesses," the New York Times notes. "KenGen power installations are secured by electric fencing which keeps away marauding wild animals," the Facebook post reads. "We regret this isolated incident, and the company is looking at ways of further enhancing security at all our power plants." Distressingly, CNN notes, most of the country probably didn't even notice the power went out: Per the World Bank, less than a quarter of Kenya's population has electric access. As for the monkey, tentatively IDed by the Times as a "pesky" vervet, it didn't turn into a Peter Gabriel song: KenGen says it survived its ordeal and has been turned over to Kenya's state wildlife agency. (Could the monkey have been an agent from the Chinese military?)