SILVER SPRINGS, Fla. — This time of year, hundreds of people head to Silver Springs every day to get a glimpse of two main attractions — manatees and monkeys. Both animals make their home in ...

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.

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 kayakers ...

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 ...

The troop of roaming primates in Silver Springs State Park will nearly double in size if state wildlife managers don't step in and stop the monkey business, according to new research released ...

Officials have closed two walking areas at Silver Springs State Park because of unwanted monkey interactions with park guests.

A feral monkey hit and killed by a vehicle in north Florida was believed to have lived in Silver Springs State Park.

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 ...

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 ...

Since then the monkey population in the area has increased dramatically. In 2015, it was estimated there were approximately 175 rhesus macaques among five groups in Silver Springs State Park.

In the 1930s, a commercial boat captain named Col. Tooey released a group of six rhesus macaques on an island in the Silver River area (which today is the Silver Springs State Park near Ocala) in ...

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 kayakers and tourists.