C) Steel cable flies loose, allowing steel door to slam shut.

B) Pipe plunges, releasing restraining bar. 'You're not going to catch those monkeys,' she said.Ī) Monkey reaches for dangling grapes, steps on a pipe. He used a big dog kennel, made some modifications, and dangled a bunch of grapes.

On the first Sunday in December, Lex Brown began to build a better monkey trap. He has since given the body to a taxidermist to have it mounted. In September, Brown's neighbor, Trent Meador, 43, shot and killed a male monkey on his land, thinking it was a coyote or a raccoon. They'd make baby monkeys, and soon the monkey population would be pooping and foraging all over the place. Eventually, he knew, these monkeys were going to be a problem. His attitude changed one morning when he found monkey poop on his John Deere tractor. He watched them from his truck through binoculars, but couldn't get close. GOTCHA! Sod farmer Lex Brown didn't mind the monkeys at first. To get to corn, the monkeys reached through a cage to spin a corn dispenser.Ī motion-sensitive camera caught the monkeys boldly raiding a deer feeder and watching a less fortunate raccoon, stuck in a monkey trap. 'They were too pretty.' He set up a camera and photographed them instead. 'But I just didn't want to shoot no monkey,' Clark said. Clark's 10-year-old grandson offered to shoot the monkeys. Closer inspection revealed the switches had been monkeyed with. Monkeys on the loose? No way! But then the monkeys started doing what monkeys do.Ĭattle rancher Ray Clark noticed corn disappearing from his deer feeders. Prefer flat, open ground, and sleep one-to-a-tree to avoid detection.

World's fastest primate.Įvasive tactics: Will split into groups when pursued. Weight: Males 27 pounds, females 14 poundsĭemeanor: Very social with each other, terrified of humans. Height: Males 2-3 feet, females average 18 inches He promised that the monkeys would be caught within a week.

Lex Salisbury hired trappers and sprinkled monkey bait. By September, Salisbury was being audited, and the five wiliest monkeys were still on the lam. What started as a monkey hunt turned into an investigation of Salisbury's business dealings and the relationship between the public zoo and his private game park. Monkey sightings were reported as far as Dade City, 25 miles away. 'They're more street-smart than a zoo monkey.'Ī reverse 911 call advised neighbors to call if they spotted the fugitives, which were harmless. 'They ended up outfoxing me and swimming off the island,' he told the press. Then Lex Salisbury - Lowry Park Zoo chief and, now, monkey wrangler - pulled up in his Land Rover. Sod farmer Lex Brown was planting grass out by the road when he saw the news trucks.

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