Sturgeon sees the funny side | Michael Cizek/AFP via Getty Images BBC confuses Nicola Sturgeon with a gorilla SNP leader introduced over footage of seven-foot Kumbuka.

The BBC was left red-faced Friday morning when it introduced Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon while mistakenly showing footage of a gorilla that escaped in London Zoo.

The mix-up happened on the BBC Breakfast morning TV show ahead of an interview with Sturgeon from the Scottish National Party's conference in Glasgow.

Presenter Naga Munchetty said: "We’re going to be joined by the Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon — we’ll talk to her about plans for a second referendum on independence." But the footage being played showed Kumbuka, a seven-foot gorilla that escaped from its enclosure in London Zoo on Thursday evening.

“I’m sorry, we’ve very clearly run the wrong pictures over that particular sequence. My apologies there, the story we will be talking about that later, as you probably guessed by the pictures, is about the escaped gorilla at London Zoo,” said fellow presenter Charlie Stayt.

The Sturgeon interview took place later in the show. Kumbuka was safely returned to his enclosure later Thursday.

Oh my days. @bbcbreakfast just ran a video of a gorilla whilst trailing Nicola Sturgeon's interview. Naga's face. I'm dying. #bbcbreakfast pic.twitter.com/onG5lFJ8Qt — Adam (@adsmills) October 14, 2016

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