Escaped monkey gets hit by tranquilizer darts, escapes anyway

Everyone loves monkeys…I mean look at this guy in the photo. How could you not love that? But when a monkey’s on the loose, everybody panics. Especially when it’s a superpowered monkey who knows how to avoid traffic and doesn’t go down when shot with tranquilizer darts, like this unnamed monkey in Tampa Bay.

Even after being hit twice with tranquilizer darts, the rhesus macaque that has been on the loose for months in the Tampa Bay area managed to escape again Wednesday afternoon.

Officials with the commission, police and wildlife rehabilitator Vernon Yates went to the scene [where the monkey was spotted]. The monkey was in some trees when it was shot and hit with two tranquilizers.

It then jumped from tree to tree. It landed on a subdivision road and crossed it. It went back in a tree and ran into an open area behind a Walgreens and a church off 54th Avenue South – and got away.

“The drugs just don’t seem to affect him for whatever reason,” Yates said. “We’ve increased the dosage every time that we’ve shot him. What we’re really doing is turning him into a drug addict.”

They say the monkey isn’t a threat to people right now, but given his newfound chemical dependency, I’m not so sure. We’ve all seen what drug addicts will do for a fix. They’ll have that monkey giving hummers and robbing Johns for a sniff of tranq in no time. I just hope people don’t get sucked in by his simian charms. It’s like “Dunston Checks In” mixed with “Urban Cowboy.”

Monkey shrugs off tranquilizers, remains loose [Tampa Bay Online]

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