Wild monkeys invaded Florida. Should people protect them?

It was a typical Florida story. In January 2014, Missy Williams stood at the edge of a park-and-fly in Dania Beach near Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. She watched the boundary where a chain-link fence stood between a strip of mangroves and the parking lot. Williams waited. Less than 20 minutes later, she saw them: wild African vervet monkeys climbing the fence.

“I was just in a state of awe,” Williams recalls. “I couldn’t believe it was really happening.”

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