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Searchers Play Baby Monkey Calls to Lure Macaque

Research monkey is missing in North Carolina

By the Associated Press

Posted Jul 7, 2012 1:14 PM CDT

(AP) – Searchers trying to find an 8-pound monkey that escaped more than a week ago in North Carolina are playing sounds of a baby monkey to try to recapture it. The macaque escaped from the Wake Forest University Primate Center. Searchers have set up humane traps and are playing baby monkey calls in a neighborhood where it was spotted, so far to no avail. They hope the monkey will respond to the calls because she is a breeding animal used in research. The 16-year-old macaque is originally from Indonesia and has been in captivity since 2008. The Winston-Salem Journal has more.

File photo of a Japanese macaque, not the missing monkey in North Carolina.
File photo of a Japanese macaque, not the missing monkey in North Carolina.   (Getty Images)
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right2dave
Jul 8, 2012 3:03 PM CDT
Check the corner Quick-Mart sharing a cold 40 with his bros.
HANKHILL
Jul 8, 2012 10:31 AM CDT
and what else are they not telling us? what was the research being done! is mr  macaque a danger to us? what will happen if he bites someone?
George-Jetson
Jul 7, 2012 6:30 PM CDT
Try using a real baby Macaque. 

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