Park manager Sally Lieb said state park officials in Tallahassee decided in late June to close off the Ross Island Boardwalk to park visitors because of unwanted monkey interactions with park guests.

Monkey and manatees draw in visitors to Silver Springs State Park BY Randy Rauch Marion County UPDATED 10:11 AM ET Mar. 01, 2024 PUBLISHED 8:10 AM ET Mar. 01, 2024 PUBLISHED 8:10 AM EST Mar. 01, 2024 ...

Officials have closed two walking areas at Silver Springs State Park because of unwanted monkey interactions with park guests. An observation deck and a boardwalk are off-limits because the ...

Silver Springs monkey population could double ... When the study was conducted in 2015, there were about 175 monkeys in the park. The study will help the state decide what to do with the animals.

While this kind of monkey is also found in other pockets of Florida, the research looked at two scenarios for the Silver Springs Park, which is managed by the state: eliminating the macaques, and ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — There’s an upswing in monkey business in and around a state park in Florida, where bands of non-native rhesus macaques live along a river that’s popular with kaya… ...

OCALA — A feral monkey hit and killed by a vehicle in Marion County was believed to have lived in Silver Springs State Park. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokesman Greg W… ...

SILVER SPRINGS, Fla. — A man was recording earlier this week when a monkey ran straight at him in Silver Spring State Park. The monkeys, which are native to south and southeast Asia, have become ...

Susie Ramsey and her family from Estero, Fla., were visiting Silver Springs State Park in Ocala on June 29 when they came across a group of wild rhesus monkeys. For more than 75 years, rhesus ...

- A kayaker shared a video from Oct. 29 of a group of monkeys jumping into the Silver River at Silver Springs State Park. Rod Guynn said he was told other kayakers on the river were seeing monkeys ...

Park rangers try to warn visitors not to feed the 20-pound, 2-foot tall mammals and are stepping up patrols in sections where there are high possibilities of monkey-human interaction.