Wild monkeys in SOUTH FLORIDA?! *EXCLUSIVE ACCESS*
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ส.ค. 2021
- We're hanging out with the Dania Beach Vervet Project, and have excuse access to see the wild vervet monkeys of Florida! Learn about them, how they got here, and how we can help protect them.
LEARN MORE HERE! vervetproject.org/
DONATE TO HELP PROTECT THE MONKEYS- vervetproject.org/donate
SUPPORT THEM ON IG- daniabeachv...
A huge thank you to seemybeach.com/ for setting this up!
Florida is a semi tropical state and more fragile than most in the US. We need to protect it, not keep hurting it. I'm glad these guys are protected, left alone. I get so tired of pet owners being irresponsible and letting them go or not containing them well enough. Best wishes for this sanctuary. Keep Florida wild !!!
Really cool and informative video as always!
very interesting how these guys have been able to survive and produce there. i wonder what florida will look like in 30 years.
great video!! hi gabby and chris!! you all doing awesome job!! have a good evening. i hope all is well.
I was shocked to find out there are Vervets in South Florida!! I live in North Florida and have been to Silver Springs and seen the monkeys there.
I’ve seen those guys in north Miami Beach at greynolds park
It's incredible (but so Florida😄) that there are wild monkeys here! There are also 4 or 5 spider monkeys on Monkey Island in the Homasassa River.💚
Wow this is so interesting!!!
I remember feeding these monkeys in the 1970’s at FAU. It was a favorite past time. I’m glad they managed to survive, but didn’t become invasive. I didn’t know then what I know now about feeding wild animals.
Great video! Is this place open to the public? If not, how did you guys get access? I can't believe that there are wild monkeys in Florida.
Chris, I'm happy you produced this video. I'm unsure that spending a gazillion dollars to sterilize and cage 17/40 wild monkeys that have managed to thrive undisturbed here for 40 years is the right more. I would definitely love to see that money spend on our local homeless population, improving our parks, etc.
First off Gabby you should probably have some knee high waterproof boots. 🙂
The vervet monkey population is not the issue, they are awesome, the rhesus macaques will end up being the problem later down the road. They have been migrating north and west. They estimate there are almost 3 to 5k in the wild and the majority have herpes B. Hopefully the python can help curve that population. As well as the wild hogs.
As a Florida native and wildlife lover, I have often thought about the best way to handle our groups of wild monkeys. The conclusion I came to is basically, the same approach they are hoping to take here; sterilization and letting the existing animals live out the rest of their lives in their current location. I really hope this project gets the backing it needs! Missy the director, seems like a very special person, with compassion and intelligence making her just as remarkably beautiful on the inside, as she is on the outside.
The Roosevelt family needs to fund this.
What do they do when a hurricane comes thru?
I just found out about these little guys here in Florida and actually was able to see them and it was just wonderful. I also heard great things from those that run into them often. I understand that this may sound like a good thing, but at the same time I don't understand why do this now when these little guys have thrived and survived for all these years. It's truly fascinating and they seem happy just running wild and staying in the same area pretty much for all these years. I am no expert, but I absolutely love animals and I don't fully understand why do this if they have been here since the 1940s and their numbers have not declined and they are not harming the environment either. To catch them now and spay/neuter them just sounds sad to me. They seem to be living just fine..years of their survival prove this, so why now. My first experience with Vervet Monkeys was in Africa, as I stated I have a passion for animals and decided to go to Africa and I had an absolutely amazing experience with 100% wild Vervet Monkeys and I saw a few with injuries, like half an arm, etc. I also saw people feeding them, once again these were 100% wild Vervet Monkeys all over Kenya in Africa. Basically everything these monkeys go through here in Florida, also happens in the wild in Africa, so I genuinely don't see why this is so necessary. They've been here decades harming no one and surviving, so why cut that. I believe just let the wild be wild, some will be injured, some might eat junk, some might get hit by a car, but this is all part of being wild. It is the same for them in Africa. They are around cars too, people feed them, and they have injuries. I'm not 100% sure, but from what I know they should just be left alone like they've been for all these years, which is a whole lot of years. They sure bring a lot of joy and seem perfectly happy.
Just wondering, maybe I misunderstood, they are sterilizing the monkeys, but at the very end of the video she mentioned that one of the females has given birth to two babies, one of which is shown. Great video
Great Videos. I'm interesting
Wherever this location is it sounds like it’s near a Freeway or Highway. Hopefully they stay within certain boundaries and don’t venture out often. But I could be wrong about the sounds I’m hearing. It possibly is something else.