Experts provide warnings after Central Florida monkey sightings

[@VedaSay]

43 of these had escaped a research facility in Yemassee, South Carolina a month back. This once should be a local thought.

[@HomeEF]

That’s right People needs to be careful.

[@humangeneric-777]

" they increased their numbers by breeding?" How else would they increase their numbers? Recruitment? Seriously? All those years studying journalism and this is the best you can come up with?

[@suttonallen1]

In journalism school, you are told to write at a 7th grade reading level because that is what the general public will understand, due to the fact that half the population consists of complete morons.

[@Cmon-Man]

What, you didn’t get the recruitment memo? 🤣 Too funny, thanks for the laugh

[@chrisbrowne4669]

Maybe the pronouns weren't compatible for increasing their numbers.

[@LisaY4yeshua]

Giant pythons that can eat large prey, huge gators that eat humans...now monekeys that carry hepatitis B. Wow! I miss the 1970' Florida where there were orange groves and the beach without the hungry bull sharks. Maranatha

[@centurione6489]

Sharks are highly protected animals, hence they grow in numbers.

[@DesertSessions93]

Yeah, but people happened to Florida. Yall literally did this.

[@ShellyCline]

It's herpes B, not hepatitis B.

[@snowmiaow]

​@@centurione6489They need to be more protected.

[@classicalroach]

She didn’t know what to say to the monkey??

[@PoM-MoM]

I know, right ? 😂

[@jefffuller9918]

I would have asked it to sing Last Train To Clarksville

[@PoM-MoM]

@@jefffuller9918 LOL Now I'd a bunch pay to see that !

[@PoM-MoM]

@@jefffuller9918 LOL now I would pay ALOT to see/hear that 🤣

[@johnmintalar]

If anyone is wondering where the road signs are at, check out that backyard. 😂

[@piratepete842]

The American pickers need to visit

[@JustSherriChrist]

😂😂😂

[@donnajacksunn489]

😂😂😂

[@tigerprincess11]

“How”d you get herpes?” “It was from a monkey, I swear!”

[@Jonas-jm]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@lorannamoody7011]

No, no it was because a woman used the men’s restroom-without permission.

[@MidwestMay]

At least it's just herpes and we haven't got koala bears yet. You would go on a hike and come back with lyme disease, chlamydia and herpes😂

[@frankvqz3799]

Well there’s a few variants of herpes. So which one are you talking about? Lol

[@Jonas-jm]

@@frankvqz3799 about the ones you have

[@theofficialsoldierthatreviews]

We also have a large community in Broward County and now I’ve see. Them in Palm beach

[@ge2623]

They're piloting the drones.

[@seabreeze8467]

Were at in Broward?

[@davidsebastianelli1326]

@@seabreeze8467 In 1975 there was a bar just off the beach between Sunrise and Los Olas in Fort Lauderdale that was called the Monkey Bar because there were monkeys that lived in the forest along there. They would come down and beg for food.

[@PoM-MoM]

HEY 🤔 UHH.. ANYONE HAVE MISSING ROAD SIGNS? Even the posts!

[@GLITTERandSKULLZ]

Florida has monkeys, nothing new.

[@PDGula-lk6dq]

Yes and their names are Matt, Ron and Rick.

[@arfriedman4577]

I never knew monkeys in FL.

[@fredbrooks2939]

Monkeys are all over Florida👀

[@QueBee-1]

Dropped off by the mystery drones!!😜

[@Jonas-jm]

😂😂😂😂

[@magulater1]

Alien monkeys.

[@sexysenior8934]

I believe it..

[@DanteAlahandro]

How do you explain contracting herpes from a monkey?

[@nicholasbyram296]

A bite that transmits the virus will cause pustules to form on the skin surface before the bite wound heals. Make sure to take a picture before the pox dry.

[@schwaggybammer968]

He pinned you down and fkd your azz😂

[@snowmiaow]

How are you going to get it?

[@vowxhing]

Florida now a real game of jumanji

[@johnnyfive1412]

Do stand your ground rules apply when confronted by a monkey who remembers that you were mean to them?

[@allrightnow3653]

I remember seeing monkeys in the trees by St John's River way back in the 60s when I was a child. My family stayed at a fishing camp for vacation by the river .

[@pennhill5459]

what are you doing with that deer crossing sign

[@rkf2746]

Drones by air, Monkeys by land. Th' F***!!!! is going on?

[@schwaggybammer968]

What’s going on is you have access to everything that’s happening in the world…crazier stuff has happened and you’d never know about it..

[@lynncollver6067]

Is no human accountable for them being loose ? There's a reason that they are there . This is not new. Ask Ocala Fl authorities how they got rid of theirs.

[@bradbradshaw-i4n]

i saw them in ocala over 50 years ago and they are still there.

[@BrekoDelo]

They never did ask anyone over 70 and your will learn how they really got here

[@PoM-MoM]

​@@BrekoDelo They told us in the video, near the end.

[@TheGaffanon]

They have not gotten rid of the ones in Ocala they are all over. Left there by the Tarzan movies filmed there decades ago is what I was told. There is also Monkey island in Homosassa that has them I’m sure some have swam away as well.

[@lisykawaii]

They have been here and we have also have them in southwest fl

[@GeneralTso-x2q]

Its the ones carrying Glocks with extended mags I worry about.

[@RonsHorse]

Oh Man, I used to love to listen to the Monkies back in the seventies

[@ShellyCline]

*Monkees

[@Mkaythen]

India be like

[@PDGula-lk6dq]

Watch your kids and pets closely!

[@ge2623]

Don't fear the Reaper either.

[@imrytebeehyneu]

Those two anchorladies are cute. Hey, just saying...

[@SteveB-hy2ci]

Dont let the doj arm them!

[@oneeyeopen5044]

Do you want harm people for the most part but you have to be careful if you’re carrying a drink in your hand or if you’re carrying a bag of very sore they’re gonna wanna come look through it if they take it from you don’t try to take it back. Eventually, they will put it down if there’s no threat And some of them already know how to barter so you can barter food to get your bag back

[@marcia2too]

Drones and monkeys hmmmmmm

[@unclegeorge7845]

Not a joke.

[@johnconner8218]

Florida Man strikes again. Probably bought a monkey as a pet and could not handle it and set them free or the monkeys escaped! SMH

[@christopherbennett5858]

The park they mentioned did import some almost a century ago and many have escaped. There’s also colonies of vervet and squirrel monkeys with many being descended from escaped lab animals.

[@thabigshow69]

I seen thEmb standing at tha local school buss stop ,thAy blended in got on bus an thAy gone

[@GTO90s]

That's a real footman!! Wait.. Nevermind it...

[@charlottehanna790]

That's not a Reeses?

[@oliverheaviside2539]

😆😆😆 Rhesus macaque. Reeses macadamia?

[@wilsonlim6104]

It's not a monkey business...

[@karenvickery6070]

The ones that escaped the research lab maybe.

[@christopherbennett5858]

Nah, the lab is in the Carolina’s. More likely, it’s a rhesus from the silver springs park or at least descended from one.

[@karenvickery6070]

@ but they could travel that far.

[@christopherbennett5858]

@@karenvickery6070 They could but the monkeys that escaped were from an all female group.

[@arfriedman4577]

I never heard of monkeys in Florida. In from north usa.

[@michaelgomez3044]

They've been here for a long time around Silver Springs. Video says 1930s when they were introduced.

[@arfriedman4577]

@michaelgomez3044 yes. I heard news say they were brought to Florida. My family and friends in various parts of fl never mentioned. They know I like animals.

[@michaelgomez3044]

@@arfriedman4577 I knew because Silver Springs is very close to where I spent my summers as a teenager.

[@ugandahater]

You've obviously never been to Dixie Highway

[@cher3256]

OMG. WTF is there anything else, how about not kill them, Silver Springs has them along their glass bottom boat rides. They were very cool and no one had the community up in arms about them carrying any diseases. Funny how things change or not.

[@BrekoDelo]

They smoke vapes now and try robbing you wasn't like that 2 years ago tho

[@Sapio420]

Looked like a normal Floridian to me. Very similar to the orange one who's about to be president

[@normamejias6587]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@floridagunrat1625]

That monkey is certainly a lot smarter than our current president!

[@BrekoDelo]

It was only a matter of time silver springs can connect far and wide I seen them in groveland yearrsss ago and I see them every time I'm in the river just let us hunt them before it becomes a big problem. And they escaped a silvers spring petting zoo get your facts right embarrassing ..people wanna say it was from a movie or the glass bottom boat but if you ask any old timer that is native they all will tell you they bin there a whole bunch of animals got loose and only the monkeys survived because of a storm

[@Vikingson59]

"would you like to pet my monkey"?btw Lisa gets more beautiful every year !!🥰

[@shawnabelle2824]

Nope

[@lynncollver6067]

People brought them here then didn't want them and let them loose. Fear not. Leave them alone.

[@jonnyboym72]

Are you hard of hearing? I suggest you re-watch the video and just listen. You'll feel stupid afterwards.

[@BrekoDelo]

​@@jonnyboym72the news don't even know the true facts you will get many reason on why they are here truth is a storm destroyed a petting zoo over 60 years ago The monkeys weren't and aren't the only things in Ocala but ended up being the only one from the zoo to survive

[@Aisha-721]

People are stupid enough to bring over all kinds of non-native species. In fact I have a non-native species in my apartment and he likes to tear up my place by playing like a kitten. He's a felis silvestris or the popular "house cat" or domestic cat. I've learned about other animals being non-native species besides the monkeys and pet cats. Florida has lots of non-native animals.

[@JustSherriChrist]

​@@Aisha-721 it's weird that you're calling people stupid for having non-native species but you also have one. By that logic, you're stupid too.😊

[@christopherbennett5858]

@@Aisha-721Yeah. Got a lot of Zebra and camel auctions. Not to mention some people who still have chimps and baboons.

[@DC-ug7qz]

Chimp Crazy

[@ugandahater]

That's racist