This image by Aaron Mencia shows two vervet monkeys in a mangrove forest near the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in South Florida. | Plants And Animals
In the 1940s, monkeys escaped from a farm. Their descendants now live in a thriving colony in Florida
The monkeys have settled in a thick mangrove forest near an urban airport.
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Two green monkeys kissing in the mangrove forest near e Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in South Florida. Credit: Aaron Mencia.
For over seven decades, a colony of green monkeys (
Chlorocebus sabaeus) has been living in urban South Florida, close to where jets take off from a nearby airport. Although Dania Beach locals love them, no one was quite sure how they got there.
Now, researchers at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) claim they’ve traced the colony origin to the Dania Chimpanzee Farm jailbreak.
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