A small African monkey with an unlikely home: a feral colony has lived in the mangroves beside the Fort Lauderdale airport, in Dania Beach, since the 1940s, when a few escaped a roadside attraction. Fewer than fifty remain, quietly raiding backyard fruit trees and dumpsters, and they are one of only two established wild-monkey populations in the country. A true only-in-Florida sighting.
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