DANIA BEACH, Fla. — They’re one of the many things that make South Florida so unique – and a bit of a legend among locals. Dozens of vervet monkeys, living less than a mile from Fort ...

After some social media footage of wild monkeys climbing on roofs in Central Florida's Groveland and Clermont went viral, many are wondering — Do monkeys actually live in the Sunshine State? Despite ...

MIAMI - For 80 years now, Vervet monkeys have lived in the wild in Dania Beach. They escaped from a chimp farm in the 1940s that was selling them in the bio-medical trade. "They got all the vervet ...

Construction began Monday on a sanctuary for the vervet monkeys of Dania Beach, a wild colony whose ancestors escaped from a breeding farm in the 1940s. Workers began clearing space in a swampy forest ...

WEBSTER, Fla. — A vervet monkey escaped from a sanctuary in Sumter County about a month ago and has been sighted in Clermont, according to the sanctuary’s founder. Founder Nina Vassallo told WKMG in ...

Read full article: ‘Like ‘Jumanji:’' Video shows monkey running near Central Florida school Mikey was recently forced out by another male and has been looking for a new place to live, according to the ...

If you see a monkey on the loose in Florida, don't approach it. Don't touch it, don't feed it, don't try to befriend it. There are a lot of "don'ts" if you see a wild monkey here, but there's at least ...

Officials in Florida are warning people to keep their distance from wild monkeys that have been spotted around the city. Residents of Orange City, about 30 miles north of Orlando, have reported ...

(WSVN) - Monkeys living in a colony near Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport have suffered injuries and even gone missing. Now, nearly three years later, one beloved monkey is back home ...

In the 1940s, a group of monkeys escaped a Dania Beach research facility. And they’ve called an area nearby “home” ever since. But for one male in the troupe, nature finally called. Ninja Joe has been ...

Conflict between crop farmers and wild nonhuman primates is a worldwide conservation issue of increasing concern. Most of the research on wild primate crop foraging has so far focused on the conflicts ...