BRONSON, Fla., March 29 (UPI) -- Sheriff's deputies in Florida are searching for three monkeys who've been spotted roaming near Williston, Fla.
The Levy County Sheriff's Office said residents in the area of County Road 318/335 reported seeing three monkeys Thursday and deputies searched the area but were unable to locate the animals.
Deputies, however, did discover a fence post with scratches believed to have been left by the monkeys and some hair that seems to have been shed by the animals.
Residents said the monkeys had discovered pet food in their carports and left huge messes.
The sheriff's office said Florida Fish & Wildlife officers have been informed of the situation and are expected to place traps for the monkeys.
Showing posts with label monkeys. Show all posts
Showing posts with label monkeys. Show all posts
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Pet Monkey Being Monitored After Biting Incident
Warren Deputy Health Commissioner Bob Pinti said the animal must remain in quarantine for 25 days and cannot leave the home unless it's to a licensed veterinarian.
Pinti said the clerk had to undergo treatment, and health officials want to make sure the monkey has no serious diseases.
"Very unusual," said Pinti. "As I say, it is the first time we have come across something like this. I don't know if any other health district that encountered any action like this, and I am sure there will be some precautions put in place so this never happens again."
Warren Law Director Greg Hicks said right now monkeys are not prohibited from being kept in the city. He said he is talking with state Rep. Sean O'Brien about looking at possible restrictions on housing monkeys as pets.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
The First Advertising Campaign Made for Monkeys
Advertising execs and scientists are experimenting with ads designed specifically to target capuchin monkeys like these.
(Fox News) A team of scientists and advertising executives unveiled the first ever advertising campaign tailor-made for monkeys at this year’s Cannes Lions Festival.The two New York ad execs, Keith Olwell and Elizabeth Kiehner, were inspired by a TED talk by Laurie Santos, a Yale University primatologist who uses monkeys to study the human mind. Through Santos, Olwell and Kiehner learned that captive monkeys understand money and even behave like humans when placed in economic situations.
The next step was obvious: monkey advertising.
Owell and Kiehner quickly teamed up with Santos -- a collaboration with Yale University and Proton Studio -- with the ultimate goal of seeing whether they could influence monkey behavior with advertising, specifically providing the monkeys with two foods, one ad supported and the other not.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, advertising for monkeys isn’t all that different than ads for us: it involved a billboard campaign.
The team placed ads outside the monkey enclosures for a period of time, at which point the monkeys will be offered a choice of two foods. “The foods will be novel to them and are equally delicious,’ Olwell told New Scientist.
The experiment will also be used as an opportunity to test one of marketing’s oldest maxims -- sex sells.
And since the monkeys have limited (if any) language and culture and an extremely short attention span, sex was the obvious high impact option, one that easily spoke across species.
According to New Scientist, one of the billboards displayed a graphic shot of a female monkey with exposed genitals. Another -- part of the same campaign -- displayed an alpha male.
Olwell already has a hypothesis on which campaign will be more successful.
“Monkeys have shown in previous studies to really love photographs of alpha males and shots of genitals, and we think this will drive their purchasing habits," he said.
The team hopes to begin the experimental campaign in the coming weeks.
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Two monkeys appointed station masters at Japanese train station
By Danielle Demetriou in Tokyo
Nehime and Rakan, two baby monkeys, have started "working" at Hojo-cho station in Hyoto prefecture in a bid to attract more visitors to the line.
The monkeys, aged seven months and three months, were dressed in blue uniforms made from traditional local fabrics complete with mini hats before being formally appointed station masters and "special city residents" by the local mayor.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
$71,623 to study how monkeys are affected by cocaine: stimulus money at work
From Hank:
"Harry Reid says “no one can do more” for Nevada. But Nevadans had no idea Harry’s plan of “more” meant spending millions on coked-up monkeys and exotic ants! Even worse, he’s doing all this while our state is ravaged by the worst foreclosure rate and highest unemployment rate in the nation.
Here’s what Harry Reid counts as “stimulus . . . "
$71,623 To Study How Monkeys Are Affected By Cocaine . . . $71,623 To Study How Monkeys Are Affected By Cocaine . . . $71,623 To Study How Monkeys Are Affected By Cocaine . . . “The Coburn-McCain report takes issue with stimulus spending on projects like one that entailed research on how cocaine affects monkeys. The Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center was awarded $71,623 to study what the report calls, ‘Monkeys Getting High for Science.’”
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Monday, July 19, 2010
Mexico arrests man with 18 titi monkeys around his waist
By Julian Miglierini
BBC News, Mexico
Mexican authorities have arrested a man who was trying to smuggle 18 small monkeys into the country by carrying them in his clothing.
Roberto Sol Cabrera, a Mexican citizen, was stopped at a random check at Mexico City's international airport last Friday after arriving from Lima.
In a statement, police said Mr Cabrera Zavaleta had been behaving "nervously".
Once he was searched, it was discovered that he had hidden 18 titi monkeys in a girdle around his waist.
Mr Sol Cabrera later confessed that the animals had travelled in his luggage, and that he had put them under his clothing "to protect them from X-rays" as he was going through customs.
The animals had been put into socks, police explained, and two of them were dead at the time of confiscation.
Many species of titi monkeys, a species from South America, are in an endangered animal list by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Cites).
The Mexican government recently restricted imports of primates and since Mr Sol Cabrera did not have any permits, he will remain in custody while more investigations take place...
BBC News, Mexico
 The monkeys were rolled up in socks and slung on a belt |
Roberto Sol Cabrera, a Mexican citizen, was stopped at a random check at Mexico City's international airport last Friday after arriving from Lima.
In a statement, police said Mr Cabrera Zavaleta had been behaving "nervously".
Once he was searched, it was discovered that he had hidden 18 titi monkeys in a girdle around his waist.
Mr Sol Cabrera later confessed that the animals had travelled in his luggage, and that he had put them under his clothing "to protect them from X-rays" as he was going through customs.
The animals had been put into socks, police explained, and two of them were dead at the time of confiscation.
Many species of titi monkeys, a species from South America, are in an endangered animal list by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Cites).
The Mexican government recently restricted imports of primates and since Mr Sol Cabrera did not have any permits, he will remain in custody while more investigations take place...
Saturday, July 10, 2010
'Never slaughter a chicken in front of a monkey'
Friday, 09 July 2010 12:33
A Chinese man who saved a one-armed, one-legged monkey says the primate has paid him back - by killing all of his chickens.
Li Chun, from Menghai village, Yunnan province, says the monkey has become a member of his family since he nursed it back to health.
It has become to devoted to the family and performs many chores around the home - but it also copies everything Li does.
When it saw him crack some eggs to make a meal it went into the hen coop and smashed all of the eggs it could find.
And when Li slaughtered a chicken, the monkey copied him and has since killed about 80 chickens, reports the Chuncheng Evening Post.
"From then on, whenever it's not occupied, it jumps into the chicken pen, and kills the chickens, no matter how big or small, and tries to pluck them," said Li...
A Chinese man who saved a one-armed, one-legged monkey says the primate has paid him back - by killing all of his chickens.
Li Chun, from Menghai village, Yunnan province, says the monkey has become a member of his family since he nursed it back to health.
It has become to devoted to the family and performs many chores around the home - but it also copies everything Li does.
When it saw him crack some eggs to make a meal it went into the hen coop and smashed all of the eggs it could find.
And when Li slaughtered a chicken, the monkey copied him and has since killed about 80 chickens, reports the Chuncheng Evening Post.
"From then on, whenever it's not occupied, it jumps into the chicken pen, and kills the chickens, no matter how big or small, and tries to pluck them," said Li...
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