2nd Escaped Monkey Shot Dead in Mississippi
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A Mississippi mom shot dead one of the aggressive monkeys that escaped from an overturned truck last week to protect her young children.
Descendants of theme-park escapees, a population of rhesus macaques in a Florida state park may soon double in size—a recipe for trouble.
Sunday, Nov. 2, one of the monkeys was spotted by a teenager in his front yard. Jessica Bond, the teen’s mother, said she heard shuffling in the bushes near her house on Saturday night, but nothing could’ve prepared her for what was waiting in her front yard the next morning: A rhesus monkey.
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