Garden & Gun Magazine. 2024. This is hardly the first time monkeys have gone missing. 

Scientific American. 2023. Parrots are taking over the world. 

Honolulu Beat. 2021. An explosion of green parakeets is causing big problems on Kauai. 

Washington Post. 2020. People can’t agree what to do about Florida’s herpes-infected monkeys. 

The Garden Island. 2019. Pau with the Parakeets. 

National Geographic. 2018. These wild monkeys thrive in Florida – and carry a deadly virus. 

Associated Press. 2018. Study predicts monkey population boom in Florida park. 

Newsweek. 2018. Florida monkeys possibly carrying deadly herpes virus could double population size by 2022. 

The Verge. 2018. Monkeys in Florida may have deadly herpes, so please don’t touch them. 

The Wildlife Society. 2018. Unmanaged, nonnative macaques boom in Florida park. 

Politico Florida. 2017. State wildlife officials considering rule change for free-roaming primates. 

Science Daily. 2016. Rhesus macaques may be preying on bird eggs in Silver Springs.           

Gainesville Sun. 2016. Thesis study looks at rhesus monkeys and bird eggs. 

WUFT. 2016. Primates may be preying on bird eggs in Silver Springs State Park.                     

IFAS News. 2016. UF/IFAS Study: Rhesus macaques may be preying on bird eggs in Silver Springs. 

University of Florida Department of Wildlife Ecology & Conservation Blog. 2016. Mapping Macaques: Studying Florida’s Non-Native Primates.