FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A monkey that moved into Fort Lauderdale just after Christmas is quickly becoming a neighborhood star.
The South Florida Sun Sentinel reports (https://bit.ly/2iyIrFG ) that residents of the city’s Rio Vista neighborhood have named the animal “Tarzan,” and are riding around in golf carts trying to get a glimpse of him.
Tarzan is likely from a colony of about 40 African vervet monkeys who are thought to have been released from a 1950s tourist attraction, but who now live in a dense patch of mangroves near Port Everglades.
Missy Williams, a PhD student at Florida Atlantic University who is studying the colony, says Tarzan is likely out searching for a new social group.
She expects him to return to the Port Everglades area after realizing there aren’t any other monkeys around.
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Information from: Sun Sentinel , https://www.sun-sentinel.com/
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