This would be some fun varmint hunting
Sam06
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A family on a kayaking trip were forced to dodge dozens of potentially deadly monkeys that had dive-bombed into the river in front of them.
Cheyenne Sosebee was paddling through the Silver Springs State Park in Ocala, Florida, with her family on September 20 when she spotted marauding rhesus macaques overhead.
The 28-year-old had just kayaked away from the tree that the primates started to leap from only seconds later.
Video footage taken by the stay-at-home mother shows the monkeys throwing themselves from a tree and into the water below.
One-by-one the monkeys dive-bomb into the river during the bizarre display, fearlessly launching themselves almost to the opposite side of the river.
Rangers are heard warning people to 'move away from the monkeys, you don't want them to attack you' as Ms Sosebee continues to film the primates splashing into the river.
Around 30 per cent of the species carry herpes B, which is potentially fatal to humans, but it is unlikely to spread from the monkeys, according to WDBO.
Ms Sosebee said: 'Before we moved our kayak away from their tree, I was worried about them landing on us. I certainly wouldn't want them in my boat. Seconds after we moved, they started jumping.
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Apparently Florida is not ready to "Go Medieval on them."
A recent thread I posted about the invasive Snakes there, said that you were not allowed to shoot them. You had to bring them in alive (screw that) so they could be dispatched.
I would imagine these are more of the same.
Common Sense does not seem to be prevalent in most of these situations Sam.
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I did a pontoon photo shoot on that river near Ocala Florida a few years back. I used the Lake county sheriff department deputies as my models and they fed the monkeys grapes to get them around the pontoon for the photos. My wife worked in the sheriffs department at that time and we had several officers that helped us do the photo shoot in their off time. There are hundreds of monkeys there leftover from the filming of Tarzan many years back. The monkeys can swim but they try to leap from trees on one side of the small river to the other side. That river starts in what used to be Silver Springs, a old tourist destination.