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Saturday, March 22, 2025
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Saturday, March 22, 2025
Police recover wild monkey in southern Bedouin village
Sue Surkes is The Times of Israel's environment reporter
This handout photo shows a wild monkey recovered in the Arur Bedouin village in southern Israel, March 22, 2025. (Israel Nature and Parks Authority)
Police find and confiscate a 17th wild monkey smuggled into the country, this time in the Arur Bedouin village in southern Israel.
After receiving reports earlier in the day of a monkey in the trees, police arrived to find that the animal had run into a house and was hiding in a closet.
This is the 11th guenon monkey captured so far in a dayslong swoop which has also netted four lion cubs.
The monkeys are passed on to the Israel Nature and Parks Authority and taken to the Israel Primate Sanctuary in central Israel, where they are quarantined for up to a fortnight pending the results of blood tests for various diseases.
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