Category: monkeys

2 Monkeys Taken From Dallas Zoo in Latest Suspicious Event

DALLAS—Two monkeys were taken from the Dallas Zoo on Monday, police said, the latest in a string of odd incidents at the attraction being investigated—including fences being cut and the suspicious death of an endangered vulture in the past few weeks. No arrests have been made in any of the investigations, and police have not…


Chinese Media and Influencers Blame US for Spread of Monkeypox

With the outbreak of monkeypox, Chinese state media and social media influencers in China have claimed that the monkeypox virus originated in a U.S. laboratory. They have also made claims that monkeypox will cause the next pandemic, despite European and American scientists pointing out that the possibility of a pandemic is extremely small due to the…


Chinese Media, Influencers Blame US for Spread of Monkeypox

Chinese state media and social media influencers in China have claimed that the monkeypox virus originated in a U.S. laboratory. They’ve also made claims that monkeypox will cause the next pandemic, even as European and U.S. scientists point out that the possibility of a pandemic is extremely small because of the close contact needed to transmit…


Florida Monkeys Thriving in the Wild for Seven Decades

Fort Lauderdale, Florida–For more than 70 years, a group of wild monkeys has been thriving in a thick mangrove forest near one of the busiest airports in the state of Florida. In the late 1940s, about a dozen vervet monkeys  made a “jailbreak” from their cages at a local chimp farm and escaped into the…


Update on Pennsylvania Woman Who Came Into Contact With Escaped Monkeys

A woman who said she came into contact with escaped monkeys in Pennsylvania several days ago said that she’s not sick. “I want people to know I am not sick, I found out I was at a birthday party Friday night and people there had COVID-19,” Michelle Fallon told local news outlet the Daily Item….


Police: Truck With 100 Monkeys Crashes, Some of Them Missing

DANVILLE, Pa.—A truck carrying about 100 monkeys was involved in a crash Friday in Pennsylvania, state police said as authorities searched for at least three of the monkeys that appeared to have escaped the vehicle. The truck carrying the animals crashed with a dump truck in the afternoon in Montour County, Pennsylvania State Police Trooper…


With No Tourist Handouts, Hungry Bali Monkeys Raid Homes

SANGEH, Indonesia—Deprived of their preferred food source—the bananas, peanuts and other goodies brought in by tourists now kept away by the coronavirus—hungry monkeys on the resort island of Bali have taken to raiding villagers’ homes in their search for something tasty. Villagers in Sangeh say the gray long-tailed macaques have been venturing out from a…