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Monkeys Aren’t Native To Florida, But One Man Brought 12 Of Them During The ’30s And Their Population Ballooned Past 1,000

Shutterstock Florida is known for many things, one of which is that it can “rain” monkeys in certain places. Kind of. When people ride a boat down Silver Springs River, they sometimes get lucky (or unlucky) to see monkeys jumping and falling off the tree branches above into the water. This is cool on its own, but then you might wonder where those monkeys came from. They are not, after all, native to Florida at all. The monkeys were imported in t…
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twistedsifter.com broke the news in on Wednesday, January 28, 2026.
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