Tag: monkeys

Thai town tackles marauding monkeys with plan to send them elsewhere

A Thai town run ragged by its ever-growing population of wild monkeys has launched an offensive against the simian raiders using trickery and ripe tropical fruit. Several high-profile cases of monkey-human conflict recently convinced authorities in Lopburi in central Thailand that they have to reduce the animals’ numbers. If all goes well, most will end […]

Mexico Getting So Hot That Monkeys Are Falling Dead From Trees

Mother Goosebumps Mexico is so hot that vulnerable howler monkeys are dropping dead from trees. Brutal and ongoing heatwaves have been tearing through Mexico, tragically claiming over two dozen confirmed human lives since March. And now it seems that animals aren’t immune from the dangerous weather, either: Reuters reports that at least 83 howler monkeys […]

Cambodian official acquitted of smuggling rare wild monkeys into South Florida

A Cambodian official accused of illegally importing wild, long-tailed macaque monkeys into the United States that were destined for Miami was acquitted Friday of conspiracy and smuggling charges after a two-week federal trial. Masphal Kry, 47, the deputy director of the Department of Wildlife and Biodiversity for the Cambodian Forestry Administration, had been under home […]

Here’s What Happened to Monkeys That Got the Neuralink Implant

Elon Musk‘s brain chip company has apparently, and against all odds, implanted its wares into a human — which is at least slightly terrifying, considering the fates suffered by many of the monkeys it’s experimented upon. In a post on X-formerly-Twitter, which he owns, the brazen billionaire said that the unidentified human subject was “recovering […]