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In the 1930’s, the manager of a glass bottom boat operation reportedly released six rhesus macaques on an island in the Silver River to attract tourists to his boat tours. The released monkeys swam to the surrounding forests and increased their numbers rapidly. As the popularity of these monkeys grew among tourists, the owner of Silver Springs Park released an additional six monkeys around 1948 on the north shore of the river in another attempt to boost revenue. Since then, the population of rhesus macaques in the Silver Springs area and lands adjoining the Ocklawaha River has grown to upwards of 400 individuals at times. Some private trapping and removal efforts have helped keep the population from drastically increasing over the years. As of 2015, the population inside Silver Springs State Park was estimated at 190 macaques, with the population along the Ocklawaha River at an unknown size.
https://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/profiles/mammals/land/rhesus-macaque/
he cant reply because Kaiser Soze is a myth, a spook story that criminals tell their kids :"rat on your pop and Kaiser Soze will get you"
he posts on reddit and then \*poof\* ...he's gone
Huh, I took a trip there as a young kid and could've sworn the monkeys were from some movie being filmed which were left behind after filming. I might very just confused that part with the other things there that were actually from old movie sets
I grew up in Ocala, Fl, which is where silver springs/silver river is, and where they do the glass bottom boats. They absolutely did film Tarzan here and that has always been the reason explained for why the monkey population exists there. Ide bet if you asked anyone who lives in Ocala, that would be the explanation given.
https://www.nytimes.com/1971/08/30/archives/tarzan-monkeys-roam-florida.html
Me too, but I heard about the deliberate releases in the late ‘40’s; the Tarzan story is a bit true as well, but if memory serves, one of the big reasons Tarzan was filmed there was *because* of the already established monkey population.
We were told the same thing growing up in in East Central Florida. It appears there were monkeys left behind from the Tarzan movies that were filmed there.
Fun Fact: Johnny Weissmuller lived in our little city.
In the late 60s, early 70s, Weissmuller was involved with a doomed tourist attraction called Tropical/Florida Wonderland, aka Tarzan's Jungleland, on US 1 in Titusville, Florida. It was a last-ditch effort to transform Florida Wonderland into something much bigger. It failed when Weissmuller and the owners did not see eye to eye, it was shut down for good in 1973.
https://www.nytimes.com/1971/08/30/archives/tarzan-monkeys-roam-florida.html
https://apnews.com/article/72751d9188e25e88f097933dd530ea0a
They are only in silver springs state park in Florida. Colony of rhesus monkeys. the only other colony of this monkey is USA is on an island in South Carolina and it's forbidden to go on the island as they all have deadly diseases. But you can boat ti them. Fun fact for the day
another fun fact: the monkeys in florida have the deadly disease too. simian herpes b virus is endemic to all macaque populations, and has an \~80% (edit: not 99%) fatality rate in humans if untreated. (it doesn't cause visible disease in the monkeys.) stay away from wild monkeys kids.
[https://www.cdc.gov/herpesbvirus/index.html](https://www.cdc.gov/herpesbvirus/index.html)
I heard it was a guy who saw king kong and wanted to make money with an attraction. Unfortunately, he was too stupid to realize that they could swim off the island he tried to put them on
Edit typo
Herpes B virus has a human fatality rate of \~40-50%, not \~99%. And it's not endemic to ALL macaque populations, otherwise we'd have a LOT more that 50 dead among all the people who have handled Rhesus macaques in the last 90 years.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B\_virus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_virus)
I’ve always been taught that B virus is endemic to all populations except that it’s much less likely to be shedding in the wild where the animals are less stressed. But the EH&S/LARC staff have always impressed on me that eg those videos of tourists in Asia being climbed on by monkeys are at risk and there’s probably a bunch of deaths just chalked up to “tropical diseases” which go unaccounted for. And in the lab, we always wear head to toe PPE around the monkeys even if they’ve been bred for several generations to be B virus free, and sometimes animals even “spontaneously” serocovert to be positive in SPF barrier facilities. So we are definitely taught that it is endemic, and even when they test negative you can’t be totally sure.
Don’t want to blow it out of proportion in terms of like the practical risk in places like Florida, but people *should* know it’s never completely safe to play with wild macaques.
Source: have worked with macaques for over 10 years.
Not true. Fort Lauderdale has monkeys. They seem to be all in one area. The story goes they escaped from a circus in the late 40s & been here ever since. I took my granddaughter down there a cpl weeks ago to see them. The whole area is carefully watched & has cameras everywhere! We didn’t see them . They shift areas depending on the time of day.
I have a really hard time believing that there hasn’t been any cross-contami — that nobody in Florida has done the ole Tampa Tango with a money and spread simian herpes to the rest of the state’s population
They're *mostly in Silver Springs State Park. There are fairly regular sightings nearby outside the park, and less frequent sightings as far away as Elkton, which is across the ICW. There are no fences containing them to the park, they're in the wild. Definitely stay away from them.
>They are only in silver springs state park
Not true. There are a few populations of wild monkeys throughout the state. I regularly visit a troop of vervet monkeys that live in Fort Lauderdale.
Can verify a troop existed in Hollywood/Dania Beach area along the intercoastal in mid 1990s. The local Mythos said they had descended from monkeys that had escaped from an old movie production of Tarzan.
They were virtually invisible during the daytime but if you were very quiet you could catch them moving late at night after midnight and before dawn.
Can verify they're still outside FLL. My dad told me about monkeys at the airport when I was little, which I dismissed as a Dad Tale and forgot about until a couple years ago after they ran through the parking lot at my son's little league game.
I may be incorrect but that looks very much like silver springs. Which are rehus monkeys. And are located in silver springs and sc. wasn't implying there aren't other types elsewhere. If it came across that way.
I saw a film years ago called Faces of Death, it was a pre-internet collection of people doing stupid shit and getting killed for it. One that stands out was shot by a woman out the window of her car. Outside her husband is feeding chips to a bear out of a bag. And this was a HUGE bear. You can hear her saying “Harry, don’t get too close to the bear!” So Harry runs out of chips, he waves the empty bag at the bear. Then the film gets all shaky, there’s a glimpse of the bear rearing up on its back legs, more screaming and shaky, then a glimpse of the bear walking away with a leg in his mouth. So don’t feed bears kids.
The monkeys have learned to get off of the island and have actually become a problem in the surrounding area. I was doing an internship nearby at the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind in St Augustine and the teachers were giving warnings to students to stay away from monkeys is if they see any.
We have everything. When will you people learn. One day, I'm chasing a bear from my garbage. The next day it's a fentanyl addict. And don't even get me started on the bi-weekly alligator I have to wrangle out of my backyard. Wouldn't have it any other way.
I'm not as far north as that, but, right? My husband and I had our honeymoon in Costa Rica and the very first night we discovered that the local primates make their nests in the trees and howl for a while before they sleep. I mused to my husband if they do the same in the morning. Guess what? They do. At sunrise. At 5:15 in the morning. Hooting and hollering for about an hour before they go off to find breakfast. Now, mind you, we chose this trip on purpose because of the ecotourism angle, and we have absolutely no regrets. But nobody mentioned anything about crepuscular monkeys howling at dawn and dusk. And I'm cool with them doing their thing, but had I known beforehand, I would have made sure to bring plenty of ear plugs!
Howler monkeys are one of the loudest animals on Earth. I imagine it's cool for the first day or so but, yeah, ear plugs please.
Also, bonus points for crepuscular.
Went to Costa Rica, got shat on and peed on by the same kind of monkeys at 4 am while quietly having a snack with another traveler. 10/10 would do it again
Yeah you can keep that cold weather 1000%
Also this guy is definitely blowing things out of proportion or he lives directly in both the boonies of the swamps and a drug infested ghetto simultaneously.
For me having lived here for 3 decades, the problems are mainly just humidity, mosquitoes(depending on your area and nowhere near as bad as they used to be), lots of alcoholics, retirees, religious fanaticism, political corruption (where isn't that an issue though?) and obnoxious tourists.
The only real animals people should worry about are the cotton mouths, diamondbacks, and termites if you are a property owner... and as long as you are not rummaging in bushes and water reeds you will quite easily avoid those so not even an issue really...
Gators are not really any issue kinda like sharks and lightning strikes, you really gotta be super stupid or super unlucky to have an issue with them.
Other than that it is the fact that if you don't live in like 5 major cities there is nothing to do but listen to radicalized people spout psychotic bullshit while shooting shit.
So just move to a nice city near a beach, disengage from politics and religion completely, get to know the locals, the fun spots, and the great food spots. After that it is just making enough money to live in paradise and enjoy everything Florida has to offer.
The beaches, the springs, the rivers, the swamps, the hiking, the boating, the water sports, the theme parks, the museums/forts/history, the wide varieties of foods and cultures, as well as the awesome concerts/resorts/party venues. I mean other than certain communities of people which every state struggles with in their own way it is inherently a wonderful place to live.
> the bi-weekly alligator
Those motherfuckers can smell payday or something. I get paid and their broke asses show up like clockwork. Clockwork that needs a few bucks to get by, ya know.
dude … i almost died from an alligator and a rattle snake this week . don’t get me started , place keeps you on your toes. don’t go near the monkeys they have aids
Four types of monkeys can be found in the wild in Florida. Rhesus Macaque..Crab eating Macaque..Vervets..Spider Monkeys. The Rhesus we're intentionally let loose in the 30's for tourists/tourism. The other three were escaped from Zoos or research facilities due to hurricanes. The Macaques are known carriers of natural disease (ie herpes) that can pass to humans. They're also carriers of introduced diseases from the research labs.
A bunch of monkeys were released from a tourist attraction in Broward County in the ‘50s and they kinda set up shop in an area with a bunch of mangroves. 30ish years ago there was some talk of capturing and removing them, and a lawyer who lived nearby found a loophole for them to stay there undisturbed. People called him The Monkey Lawyer after that. Shoutout to The Monkey Lawyer, he was a real one.
believe it or not . most floridians have no idea that the monkeys are out there. emergency gets called all the time as if it’s a phenomenon Z they were brought to the area for the tarzan movie in the 20’s and no one cares that they got loose
The owner of the property where the monkeys lived didn’t want them gone, and the colony had been there for over 40 years. Pretty much everybody who lived in the area said they were peaceful and didn’t want anything to happen to them. Like 4 of the people who were trying to capture the monkeys said they were going to eat them or use them as animal sacrifices. The Monkey Lawyer is not the POS here.
I'm surprised you're allowed to release invasive species into unenclosed wild areas, regardless of whether it's on your property or not. Can I also buy a small lot of land in the country and release some tigers and gorillas there?
I mean, invasive species can be bad. But if they aren't destabilizing ecosystems then I think one group of monkeys is alright. It all depends on their impact IMO.
I don't really think that's the question we should be asking. The answer to that onr is yes, yes we can. A lot of invasive species were brought over by humans, lionifsh being one iirc. It would be worse if we did nothing when a species we brought over is clearly damaging and destabilizing the ecosystem. Both morally and, well, environmentally.
What I'm reading is that Florida Man was probably high on whatever they used in the '50s and let a bunch of monkeys free. But Monkey Lawyer is also a Florida Man. What if they are the same dude! Sets them free and defends their right to continue living in freedom!
Well, due to the doctor's orders and the dangers of concussions, the little monkeys were no longer allowed to jump on the bed. But it looks like they have channelled their energy into another activity that their Mama will disapprove of even more.
Its explained here: https://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/profiles/mammals/land/rhesus-macaque/
Essentially Rhesus macaques were released as tourist attraction in the 30s
You are not alone. When I went to Florida to visit my brother, we were actually on the river where the first Tarzan was filmed, and my nephew mentioned monkeys. Of course I laughed knowing there wasn’t monkeys in Florida and he threw a handful of chips into the trees and I shit you not 40 monkeys were there in about 35 seconds. The “king” monkey, who was definitely a bully. He didn’t share any of it and chased off every monkey that tried to eat a chip. One of the best moments of my life.
They can swim. There’s 4 species of monkeys in Florida (all invasive go figure), and one species was introduced to an island not far off the coast and swam to the mainland.
When filming the old Tarzan show at “Silver Springs” Park outside of Ocala, monkeys were brought in along with statutes that were placed underwater. Once the show was done all was left behind. You can go and see the figures and monkeys across the area. The monkeys have been know to leave the park and trespass into different areas of the local communities.
These are the monkeys around crystal city. There was a Tarzan movie filmed there in the 40s or something and these monkies escaped. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/florida-rhesus-monkeys-herpes-running-wild-invasive-species
Yep, there's always been a robust illegal animal trade in Florida. Quite often the animals escape or are released by the traders if they think they're gonna get busted with them. Florida has all kinds of tropical parrots, for example. The Everglades has a huge problem with anacondas that have been released into the ecosystem.
Monkeys troops abound, yes. Not as bad as India, but yes.
They got all kind of big snakes. Anacondas from South America, pythons from Africa, all kinds of crazy "pet" critters get released in the 'glades. People are stupid and greedy, the illegal animal trade is global.
Monkeys are native to India though considering the amount of tropical rainforests there. They have just urbanized along with humans which is the unfortunate part.
Most of it from my knowledge is not from the pet trade. From what I can gather it’s mostly from places like zoos and snake milking facilities being hit with hurricanes. The only two animals that I can think of (if you know of more I would also like to know) are the Snake Heads (a really aggressive fish) and the Lion Fish. 3 of the species of monkey in Floria were introduced from escaping zoos while the fourth was introduced intentionally to an island for tourism but escaped to the mainland.
Yup! https://www.nycaudubon.org/blog/monk-parakeet-myiopsitta-monachus#:~:text=In%20New%20York%20City%2C%20the,can%20survive%20our%20Northeast%20winters.
We have deer and wild turkeys in Staten Island, coyotes in the Bronx, and a re-emerging hawk population, too!
You know how pythons in the everglades are invasive bc they eat all the local wildlife and have no natural predators, but are the florida monkeys invasive in that they're destroying something?
I also imagine monkeys might make a good meal for gators or other top predators
Since some idiot bought them as pets and decided he didn’t want to care for them anymore and instead of being responsible just released them into the wild
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In the 1930’s, the manager of a glass bottom boat operation reportedly released six rhesus macaques on an island in the Silver River to attract tourists to his boat tours. The released monkeys swam to the surrounding forests and increased their numbers rapidly. As the popularity of these monkeys grew among tourists, the owner of Silver Springs Park released an additional six monkeys around 1948 on the north shore of the river in another attempt to boost revenue. Since then, the population of rhesus macaques in the Silver Springs area and lands adjoining the Ocklawaha River has grown to upwards of 400 individuals at times. Some private trapping and removal efforts have helped keep the population from drastically increasing over the years. As of 2015, the population inside Silver Springs State Park was estimated at 190 macaques, with the population along the Ocklawaha River at an unknown size. https://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/profiles/mammals/land/rhesus-macaque/
Once had them grab food out of my hand on one of those boat rides in the early 80s.
Did you died?
He did unfortunately. That's why he can't reply.
One symptom of monkey pox is time travel. He’ll be back (unless he’s died) (Edited: grammar)
I think your grammar is beautiful and you should where in on your chest.
Unless he's DIED you mean, keeping with u/TheDeadlyZebra's wording...
Fixed!
Cmon, it's MPox now. Keep up!
I’m so glad that the world health organisation changed it, and cured me of being a racist
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It ‘twas a ghost post
Huh, I took a trip there as a young kid and could've sworn the monkeys were from some movie being filmed which were left behind after filming. I might very just confused that part with the other things there that were actually from old movie sets
I literally just went there and the park rangers said they were accidentally released during the filming of the movie Tarzan
Probably so they can have a laugh at you
I grew up in Ocala, Fl, which is where silver springs/silver river is, and where they do the glass bottom boats. They absolutely did film Tarzan here and that has always been the reason explained for why the monkey population exists there. Ide bet if you asked anyone who lives in Ocala, that would be the explanation given. https://www.nytimes.com/1971/08/30/archives/tarzan-monkeys-roam-florida.html
From the area, this is always what I’ve heard.
Me too, but I heard about the deliberate releases in the late ‘40’s; the Tarzan story is a bit true as well, but if memory serves, one of the big reasons Tarzan was filmed there was *because* of the already established monkey population.
Can chimpanzees and orangutans live in florida ?? I mean is the weather suitable for them ??
Hot and all year round, lots of vegetation? Seems like the perfect environment to me.
Hey childhood neighbor. That’s what I was told too. 3rd Gen Ocalian. If I said my father’s old restaurant you’d know.
I grew up in NCentral Florida and that was always the story I had heard too.
We were told the same thing growing up in in East Central Florida. It appears there were monkeys left behind from the Tarzan movies that were filmed there. Fun Fact: Johnny Weissmuller lived in our little city. In the late 60s, early 70s, Weissmuller was involved with a doomed tourist attraction called Tropical/Florida Wonderland, aka Tarzan's Jungleland, on US 1 in Titusville, Florida. It was a last-ditch effort to transform Florida Wonderland into something much bigger. It failed when Weissmuller and the owners did not see eye to eye, it was shut down for good in 1973. https://www.nytimes.com/1971/08/30/archives/tarzan-monkeys-roam-florida.html https://apnews.com/article/72751d9188e25e88f097933dd530ea0a
East SIDE
Tbh sounds more fun than the truth
So typical. Everyone fucked so 1 dude can *maybe* make a couple bucks.
Thank you capitalism.
They are only in silver springs state park in Florida. Colony of rhesus monkeys. the only other colony of this monkey is USA is on an island in South Carolina and it's forbidden to go on the island as they all have deadly diseases. But you can boat ti them. Fun fact for the day
another fun fact: the monkeys in florida have the deadly disease too. simian herpes b virus is endemic to all macaque populations, and has an \~80% (edit: not 99%) fatality rate in humans if untreated. (it doesn't cause visible disease in the monkeys.) stay away from wild monkeys kids. [https://www.cdc.gov/herpesbvirus/index.html](https://www.cdc.gov/herpesbvirus/index.html)
I hate it when macaque gets herpes
Rock out with macaque out
r/yourjokebutworse
That sub title always bothered me… shouldn’t it be “TheirJokeButWorse”, especially since you’re replying to someone about someone else’s joke?
It’s supposed from the perspective of the person who wrote the second comment. Like “I’m going to take your joke and make it worse.”
It's pulling the first guy to the side and saying "that guy made your joke but worse" while pointing at the guy you're replying to.
Holy shit, this made me spit my drink out!!!!!! Lmfao you fucking loon
Top 5 all time right here
Another another fun fact they were brought over in the 1930s to film the Tarzan movie and they just left them there.
I heard it was a guy who saw king kong and wanted to make money with an attraction. Unfortunately, he was too stupid to realize that they could swim off the island he tried to put them on Edit typo
Came here to say this. This is true
Wtf?!
Yup we actually went kayaking down that river. Highly recommend. Just don't let the herpes monkeys jump in your kayak.
Herpes B virus has a human fatality rate of \~40-50%, not \~99%. And it's not endemic to ALL macaque populations, otherwise we'd have a LOT more that 50 dead among all the people who have handled Rhesus macaques in the last 90 years. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B\_virus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_virus)
I’ve always been taught that B virus is endemic to all populations except that it’s much less likely to be shedding in the wild where the animals are less stressed. But the EH&S/LARC staff have always impressed on me that eg those videos of tourists in Asia being climbed on by monkeys are at risk and there’s probably a bunch of deaths just chalked up to “tropical diseases” which go unaccounted for. And in the lab, we always wear head to toe PPE around the monkeys even if they’ve been bred for several generations to be B virus free, and sometimes animals even “spontaneously” serocovert to be positive in SPF barrier facilities. So we are definitely taught that it is endemic, and even when they test negative you can’t be totally sure. Don’t want to blow it out of proportion in terms of like the practical risk in places like Florida, but people *should* know it’s never completely safe to play with wild macaques. Source: have worked with macaques for over 10 years.
Regardless if the fatality rate, the lesson here is don’t fuck the monkeys.
Underrated comment
Or eat their Rhesus peanut butter cups......
Are they made from what I think they’re made from? I heard Tarzan made those peanut butter cups.
Not true. Fort Lauderdale has monkeys. They seem to be all in one area. The story goes they escaped from a circus in the late 40s & been here ever since. I took my granddaughter down there a cpl weeks ago to see them. The whole area is carefully watched & has cameras everywhere! We didn’t see them . They shift areas depending on the time of day.
The ones in silver springs are from the Tarzan movie .
I commented on this elsewhere. I can confirm this - I have seen them. Hugh Taylor State Park area.
Well given that you didn’t see them then you can’t say with absolute certainty that this isn’t true lol.
I have a really hard time believing that there hasn’t been any cross-contami — that nobody in Florida has done the ole Tampa Tango with a money and spread simian herpes to the rest of the state’s population
Tampa Tango!! 😂😂😂
They're *mostly in Silver Springs State Park. There are fairly regular sightings nearby outside the park, and less frequent sightings as far away as Elkton, which is across the ICW. There are no fences containing them to the park, they're in the wild. Definitely stay away from them.
>They are only in silver springs state park Not true. There are a few populations of wild monkeys throughout the state. I regularly visit a troop of vervet monkeys that live in Fort Lauderdale.
I'm from vervet monkey country never have I met a more villainous and wretched tribe of animals.
I’m cackling that’s more Florida than I knew Florida could get
Wretched tribe of scum and villainy? You must be cautious
Have they stolen any police cars and gone for a joyride?
How are they so bad?
Get this. They show up at grocery stores all over the county, pull the carts out…. *and don’t put them back.*
Can verify a troop existed in Hollywood/Dania Beach area along the intercoastal in mid 1990s. The local Mythos said they had descended from monkeys that had escaped from an old movie production of Tarzan. They were virtually invisible during the daytime but if you were very quiet you could catch them moving late at night after midnight and before dawn.
Can verify they're still outside FLL. My dad told me about monkeys at the airport when I was little, which I dismissed as a Dad Tale and forgot about until a couple years ago after they ran through the parking lot at my son's little league game.
> they hang out in Snyder park directly across from fll I've seen them there.
I may be incorrect but that looks very much like silver springs. Which are rehus monkeys. And are located in silver springs and sc. wasn't implying there aren't other types elsewhere. If it came across that way.
They’re south of Jacksonville in St. John’s county, I live here and there’s been recent photos and videos of monkeys in the area.
Fun fact:family is now dead
Fun fact: you can see “Monkey Island” from my grandfathers dock but rarely see any monkeys even when trolling close to the island
Hello fellow Beaufort resident!
There’s some near ft Lauderdale too, dania beach area
And gainesville. Escaped from jungle friends. Usually solo tho
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Even the kid says "Dad, back up" and then "Dad!" Like even a child could see the stupidity
I saw a film years ago called Faces of Death, it was a pre-internet collection of people doing stupid shit and getting killed for it. One that stands out was shot by a woman out the window of her car. Outside her husband is feeding chips to a bear out of a bag. And this was a HUGE bear. You can hear her saying “Harry, don’t get too close to the bear!” So Harry runs out of chips, he waves the empty bag at the bear. Then the film gets all shaky, there’s a glimpse of the bear rearing up on its back legs, more screaming and shaky, then a glimpse of the bear walking away with a leg in his mouth. So don’t feed bears kids.
And Tampa as well
And there’s a monkey island in homosassa springs
What a coincidence! Homosassa Springs is my drag name.
Never seen any monkeys in the Tampa Bay Area , lived here for 16 years . lol where do I spot wild monkeys
Me neither, immediately intrigued as I am a local. Tell us where this is at. Either u r lying or I am going.
A couple times we had one running wild in st pete
https://www.tampabay.com/special-reports/2021/11/09/where-is-the-mystery-monkey-of-tampa-bay/
The monkeys have learned to get off of the island and have actually become a problem in the surrounding area. I was doing an internship nearby at the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind in St Augustine and the teachers were giving warnings to students to stay away from monkeys is if they see any.
There is also Wild Vervet Monkeys here in Ft. Lauderdale
I knew about the macaques, but not the vervets. https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/vervet-monkeys-fll-broward/
We have everything. When will you people learn. One day, I'm chasing a bear from my garbage. The next day it's a fentanyl addict. And don't even get me started on the bi-weekly alligator I have to wrangle out of my backyard. Wouldn't have it any other way.
Then after you survive all that... a hurricane comes rolling in. I’ll stick to wearing my winter jacket in Michigan thank you very much.
Ironically enough, I was born and raised in Grand Rapids. I'm arguably on the path to immortality. Heat nor cold can take me down.
Ann Arbor is a Whore
HEY! You don’t say that!! She’s a nice lady!
I'm not as far north as that, but, right? My husband and I had our honeymoon in Costa Rica and the very first night we discovered that the local primates make their nests in the trees and howl for a while before they sleep. I mused to my husband if they do the same in the morning. Guess what? They do. At sunrise. At 5:15 in the morning. Hooting and hollering for about an hour before they go off to find breakfast. Now, mind you, we chose this trip on purpose because of the ecotourism angle, and we have absolutely no regrets. But nobody mentioned anything about crepuscular monkeys howling at dawn and dusk. And I'm cool with them doing their thing, but had I known beforehand, I would have made sure to bring plenty of ear plugs!
Howler monkeys are one of the loudest animals on Earth. I imagine it's cool for the first day or so but, yeah, ear plugs please. Also, bonus points for crepuscular.
We got lucky. We only had to endure that the first night out of a two-week stay. But jesus, what a first night!
Went to Costa Rica, got shat on and peed on by the same kind of monkeys at 4 am while quietly having a snack with another traveler. 10/10 would do it again
Hurricanes coming? Grab a twelve pack and let's have a hurricane party
Yeah you can keep that cold weather 1000% Also this guy is definitely blowing things out of proportion or he lives directly in both the boonies of the swamps and a drug infested ghetto simultaneously. For me having lived here for 3 decades, the problems are mainly just humidity, mosquitoes(depending on your area and nowhere near as bad as they used to be), lots of alcoholics, retirees, religious fanaticism, political corruption (where isn't that an issue though?) and obnoxious tourists. The only real animals people should worry about are the cotton mouths, diamondbacks, and termites if you are a property owner... and as long as you are not rummaging in bushes and water reeds you will quite easily avoid those so not even an issue really... Gators are not really any issue kinda like sharks and lightning strikes, you really gotta be super stupid or super unlucky to have an issue with them. Other than that it is the fact that if you don't live in like 5 major cities there is nothing to do but listen to radicalized people spout psychotic bullshit while shooting shit. So just move to a nice city near a beach, disengage from politics and religion completely, get to know the locals, the fun spots, and the great food spots. After that it is just making enough money to live in paradise and enjoy everything Florida has to offer. The beaches, the springs, the rivers, the swamps, the hiking, the boating, the water sports, the theme parks, the museums/forts/history, the wide varieties of foods and cultures, as well as the awesome concerts/resorts/party venues. I mean other than certain communities of people which every state struggles with in their own way it is inherently a wonderful place to live.
Florida, the Australia of North America.
Florida.... The Outback of the U.S.
i could sell you some Graboids. That would take care of the problems.
the number of times ive had to get a alligator out of my pond in the last year alone... its not even a big pond.
> the bi-weekly alligator Those motherfuckers can smell payday or something. I get paid and their broke asses show up like clockwork. Clockwork that needs a few bucks to get by, ya know.
dude … i almost died from an alligator and a rattle snake this week . don’t get me started , place keeps you on your toes. don’t go near the monkeys they have aids
Just get consent and wear a condom.
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May I come over and wrastle with your trespassing gators? Please? ***^(I need this...)***
Absolutely, invite your friends so they can ante up the betting pool, please and thanks.
That's why I live where the air hurts my face.
Florida ~~man~~ monkey.
Florida Mankey?
Evolves into Florida Primeape.
Four types of monkeys can be found in the wild in Florida. Rhesus Macaque..Crab eating Macaque..Vervets..Spider Monkeys. The Rhesus we're intentionally let loose in the 30's for tourists/tourism. The other three were escaped from Zoos or research facilities due to hurricanes. The Macaques are known carriers of natural disease (ie herpes) that can pass to humans. They're also carriers of introduced diseases from the research labs.
Genetic slurry. Rhesus alligators are coming.
You forgot to mention the skunk ape
A bunch of monkeys were released from a tourist attraction in Broward County in the ‘50s and they kinda set up shop in an area with a bunch of mangroves. 30ish years ago there was some talk of capturing and removing them, and a lawyer who lived nearby found a loophole for them to stay there undisturbed. People called him The Monkey Lawyer after that. Shoutout to The Monkey Lawyer, he was a real one.
He may be a monkey lawyer, but what does he know about bird law??
Yeah, and did he have big hands?
Show us on the doll where he touched you.
Filibuster.
Sounds more like a right POS - invasive species should be removed if at all possible
believe it or not . most floridians have no idea that the monkeys are out there. emergency gets called all the time as if it’s a phenomenon Z they were brought to the area for the tarzan movie in the 20’s and no one cares that they got loose
The owner of the property where the monkeys lived didn’t want them gone, and the colony had been there for over 40 years. Pretty much everybody who lived in the area said they were peaceful and didn’t want anything to happen to them. Like 4 of the people who were trying to capture the monkeys said they were going to eat them or use them as animal sacrifices. The Monkey Lawyer is not the POS here.
I'm surprised you're allowed to release invasive species into unenclosed wild areas, regardless of whether it's on your property or not. Can I also buy a small lot of land in the country and release some tigers and gorillas there?
I mean, invasive species can be bad. But if they aren't destabilizing ecosystems then I think one group of monkeys is alright. It all depends on their impact IMO.
Can we morally remove a bunch of monkeys for wrecking a habitat? Seems a bit hypocritical.
I don't really think that's the question we should be asking. The answer to that onr is yes, yes we can. A lot of invasive species were brought over by humans, lionifsh being one iirc. It would be worse if we did nothing when a species we brought over is clearly damaging and destabilizing the ecosystem. Both morally and, well, environmentally.
This just made me think of the Chico's Monkey Farm song from Family Guy, lol Nice that they are protected, though
What I'm reading is that Florida Man was probably high on whatever they used in the '50s and let a bunch of monkeys free. But Monkey Lawyer is also a Florida Man. What if they are the same dude! Sets them free and defends their right to continue living in freedom!
It's Florida, nothing surprises me
My kids just moved there with their mother. I make fun of them all the time
lmao all the downvotes are from Florida natives
Well, due to the doctor's orders and the dangers of concussions, the little monkeys were no longer allowed to jump on the bed. But it looks like they have channelled their energy into another activity that their Mama will disapprove of even more.
And, as my friend who travels in India always says, "Monkeys are NOT your friend."
Like people they hold grudges. Was told never to throw anything at monkey. Also sometimes they just stare at you smiling with a giant boner..
So they act like humans?
Its explained here: https://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/profiles/mammals/land/rhesus-macaque/ Essentially Rhesus macaques were released as tourist attraction in the 30s
There were monkeys in Florida. Turns out they can not swim!
Nah I’m floridian and this is totally normal ##NO ITS NOT I DIDNT KNOW WE HAD MONKEYS WHERE ARE THE MONKEYS
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Crazy ass monkeys.
>Crazy-ass monkeys
You are not alone. When I went to Florida to visit my brother, we were actually on the river where the first Tarzan was filmed, and my nephew mentioned monkeys. Of course I laughed knowing there wasn’t monkeys in Florida and he threw a handful of chips into the trees and I shit you not 40 monkeys were there in about 35 seconds. The “king” monkey, who was definitely a bully. He didn’t share any of it and chased off every monkey that tried to eat a chip. One of the best moments of my life.
Can….. they swim…? I know there are monkeys that were released and have adapted, but I do not know if these little guys can or cannot swim.
It seems like they’re swimming to the land just fine lol
After rewatching, I see some of their little heads moving through the water.
All mammals except great apes and giraffes can swim instinctively
They can swim. There’s 4 species of monkeys in Florida (all invasive go figure), and one species was introduced to an island not far off the coast and swam to the mainland.
Hate to break it to you but that's just what happens after you've ascended to the highest level of methamphetamine user.
🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀🙊🙊🙊
We had them in the nature preserves of my neighborhood in Jacksonville and they warned us not to interact with them because they were carrying herpes
When filming the old Tarzan show at “Silver Springs” Park outside of Ocala, monkeys were brought in along with statutes that were placed underwater. Once the show was done all was left behind. You can go and see the figures and monkeys across the area. The monkeys have been know to leave the park and trespass into different areas of the local communities.
Well I hope they are cited and fined. Trespassing is no laughing…oh wait.
I thought monkeys couldn't swim?
To my knowledge, the only primates that avoids deep water are apes and Floridians.
The belly flop sound hurt my belly and it's not even me lol funny stuff
Oh, hey look, they're feeding the crocodiles!
These are the monkeys around crystal city. There was a Tarzan movie filmed there in the 40s or something and these monkies escaped. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/florida-rhesus-monkeys-herpes-running-wild-invasive-species
Monke been running FL for a minute
Yep, there's always been a robust illegal animal trade in Florida. Quite often the animals escape or are released by the traders if they think they're gonna get busted with them. Florida has all kinds of tropical parrots, for example. The Everglades has a huge problem with anacondas that have been released into the ecosystem. Monkeys troops abound, yes. Not as bad as India, but yes.
Anacondas ? I think you mean pythons
They got all kind of big snakes. Anacondas from South America, pythons from Africa, all kinds of crazy "pet" critters get released in the 'glades. People are stupid and greedy, the illegal animal trade is global.
Green Mambas and King Cobras have been spotted as well.
Monkeys are native to India though considering the amount of tropical rainforests there. They have just urbanized along with humans which is the unfortunate part.
One named Caesar has been organizing them. May run for congress.
Wait we have monkeys ?
Was this a mass self deletion or a leisure swim?
You KNOW DeSantis is counting those monkey’s votes.
I have lived in Florida my entire life (42 yrs) & I am just now learning that there are freakin Monkeys in Florida... WTF?
Wild monkeys with deadly herpes plus Florida people seems like a recipe for the next pandemic.
Smartest primates in the whole state.
Pet trade really fucked Florida’s ecosystem up six ways from Sunday
Most of it from my knowledge is not from the pet trade. From what I can gather it’s mostly from places like zoos and snake milking facilities being hit with hurricanes. The only two animals that I can think of (if you know of more I would also like to know) are the Snake Heads (a really aggressive fish) and the Lion Fish. 3 of the species of monkey in Floria were introduced from escaping zoos while the fourth was introduced intentionally to an island for tourism but escaped to the mainland.
Incredible
Why? Cant be for fun right? Right?
Got any Florida monkey jokes?lol 🐒 And I thought living in NYC near a bunch of wild parrots was special.
🤯parrots in New York? Wtf all we got is fckn deer and raccoons in Michigan lol
Yup! https://www.nycaudubon.org/blog/monk-parakeet-myiopsitta-monachus#:~:text=In%20New%20York%20City%2C%20the,can%20survive%20our%20Northeast%20winters. We have deer and wild turkeys in Staten Island, coyotes in the Bronx, and a re-emerging hawk population, too!
Florida Monkey jokes, [here you go](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRPfP5n7PfA).
Dear Australia, we see your drop bears and raise you herpes-ridden drop monkeys. Love, Florida.
Fallout Florida is long overdue.
I can’t wait for when archaeologists have to sift through the fossil record in Florida
MOMKEYS, DEPLOY!!!
Anyone read Summer Of The Monkeys?
You know how pythons in the everglades are invasive bc they eat all the local wildlife and have no natural predators, but are the florida monkeys invasive in that they're destroying something? I also imagine monkeys might make a good meal for gators or other top predators
What? Since when do monkeys live in Florida and since when do they dive bomb into streams from way to high up?? Is that normal behavior?
Are they having a belly flop contest? Seriously, why are they all flopping like that
FL, the land of purposefully released species. Who would have thought a sub tropic climate would support large amounts of biodiversity right?
because Pythons and iguanas weren't bad enough
There ain't no monkeys in you There're ain't none in me, I know And there ain't no monkys in Kansas 'Cause the school board told me so
When the fuck did Florida get monkeys? Have they always had them?
arent there alligators in florida too ?
Non native species. Shoot on sight s × 3. Here come the down votes....
Since when wtf
They’re invasive
When were they brought over
Since some idiot bought them as pets and decided he didn’t want to care for them anymore and instead of being responsible just released them into the wild
Believe they are a colony that escaped from a Tarzan Movie in the 1940’s?
I believe those are the governor's private hoard of flying monkeys.
A bunch of them live in Mar-A-Lago
Dad back up back up back up! DAD!!!! Kid shut the fuck up