FYI: Why Are There No Native Monkeys In North America?
Squirrel Monkey The squirrel monkey, a New World monkey, would be pretty adorable to have perched on your white picket fence. Alas, it is not to be. Wikimedia Commons If only they had developed monkey boats. Tiny little monkey boats! Oh man I wish they had monkey boats. The infamous "Mystery Monkey of Tampa," an escaped rhesus macaque, was captured back in October. The rhesus macaque is not a rare monkey; it's adapted to human society better than most, can survive on all kinds of foods, and can live in most any kind of hot-weather environment. And yet the Mystery Monkey captured the nation's attention. A monkey! On the loose! In Florida! So cool! And it got us wondering: why aren't there monkeys all over the United States? We've got tropical zones in the Florida Keys and the Caribbean, hot grasslands in the deep south, humid swamps in Louisiana and South Florida. And...