Stock image of an aggressive rhesus macaque. A pet monkey in Oklahoma attacked a woman and ripped her ear in half. iStock / Getty Images Plus. "He jumped up on my back and landed on my head ...

Don't pet it. It's not your average animal at the zoo,” said Orange City Police Lt. Sherif El-Shami. The monkey is believed to be a rhesus macaque, one of the three species that live in Florida.

Lawson hid the young rhesus macaque monkey under a loose-fitting blouse on a flight from Bangkok, Thailand, to Los Angeles, California, International Airport, pretending she was pregnant, the U.S ...

For example, a rhesus monkey named “Miss Sam” was launched in 1960 in a Mercury capsule that attained a velocity of 1,800 mph (1,900 kph) and an altitude of 9 miles (14.5 kilometers) .

Monkey business. Rhesus Macaques are particularly problematic primates, says anthropologist Erin Riley, who studies human-animal interactions at San Diego State University.

Nearly 1,400 rhesus macaques were brought to the Florida Keys by a laboratory animal breeding company in the 1970s but they were ordered removed in 1997 after they destroyed 30 acres of mangroves.

Recent monkey escapes. Last month, 43 rhesus macaques monkeys, ... Don't pet it. It's not your average animal at the zoo,” Orange City Police Lt. Sherif El-Shami said in August 2023.