Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Descendants of Florida theme-park escapees

Silver Spring State Park is home to at least 300 rhesus macaques. The monkeys carry a rare and deadly form of herpes virus 
called herpes B.
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It's Colonel Tooey"s fault. In 1938 he  released six rhesus macaques onto a small island within what is now the state park.  The animals are breeding rapidly, and a new study estimates that the monkey population will double by 2022 unless state agencies take steps to control it. here

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