For decades, monkeys have roamed around Silver River State Park and Silver Springs, a delight for tourists and a headache for state land managers. For years the state has allowed a trapper to ...

Monkeys have been living around Silver River State Park since the 1930s. Although tourists love them, officials worry the animals carry diseases and have allowed a trapper to catch hundreds.

The virus doesn’t bother the monkeys, but can be fatal to humans. ... (That happened at least 23 times near Silver Springs State Park between 1977 and 1984.) ...

For decades, monkeys have roamed around Silver River State Park and Silver Springs, a delight for tourists and a headache for state land managers. For years the state has allowed a trapper to catch… ...

The monkeys were brought to Silver Springs State Park by Colonel Tooey in the 1930s. Tooey owned a river-cruise tourist attraction and thought the monkeys would be a defining trait of the ride.

The Silver Spring monkeys are rhesus macaques, a species not native to Florida, originating from south and southeast Asia. The macaques were first reportedly spotted in the 1930s, ...

The monkeys were introduced to the area in the 1930s by a tour boat operator named Colonel Tooey. He thought it would be a good idea to release six macaques on a small island in the Silver River ...

Lori Lehner, who played a central role in the infamous "Silver Spring monkeys" case when she opened her house to 17 laboratory monkeys in 1981, died of leukemia June 2 in Tampa. She was 45 and had ...

Wild monkeys inhabit the swamp along the Silver River in Ocala, Florida. Michael Warren—Getty Images/iStockphoto. By Jamie Ducharme. January 11, 2018 10:31 AM EST.

A new study by University of Florida researchers is giving state wildlife officials a reason to consider removing the roaming monkeys of Silver Springs State Park in Marion County. Study looked at ...

They are cute and clever and rarely hurt anybody, and then only when provoked. All of which is a lot more than you can say for most humans.But the Silver Springs rhesus monkeys have been the ...

The trees overlooking the sapphire water of the Silver River are home to a long-armed species that is one of Florida’s wonders. For more than 75 years, monkeys native to Central and East Asia… ...