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Flying Monkey Travels Coach

Man smuggles baby marmoset onto flight under his hat

By Heather McPherson,  Newser User

Posted Aug 8, 2007 11:51 AM CDT

(Newser) – A man smuggled a monkey onto a Spirit Airlines flight from Ft. Lauderdale to LaGuardia yesterday by hiding it under his hat. Fellow passengers caught on when the small primate—a baby marmoset the size of a fist—came out and hung on the man's ponytail. The monkey-smuggler, whose flight originated in Lima, Peru, is being questioned at La Guardia. Fellow-passengers credited the monkey for being well-behaved.

When passengers noticed the stowaway, they asked the man "if he knew he had a monkey on him," says the airline's spokeswoman. The monkey, aparently healthy, will probably be quarantined for a month and eventually sent to a zoo. No word on any possible charges for his smuggler. But officials felt the need to add this reassurance :"There was no national security issue."

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