Monkey on the loose!

Ocassionally we get calls from the readers about people doing funky things in the neighborhood or a Christmas light display, a cat in a tree, but a monkey in a tree? That never happens...But on this day in November, it did. There was a Rhesus monkey hold up in a woman's backyard in Palm Coast. I was able to snap off a few frames of this cute little guy before the Florida Fish and Wildlife officer tried to tranquilize it, capture it and get rid of it. Apparently wild monkeys can carry dangerous things like Hepatitus and other nasty things...like knives I guess. Seriously though, they got one dart in him, but he disappeared and probably took a nap on a tree branch and then was able to get away. Score one for the monkey! He was thought to have migrated from Silver Springs/Ocala area where a group of monkeys has been living since the filming of a Tarzan films in the 1930's.