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I’m sure this is far more amusing to read about than actually be in the middle of<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When hordes of monkeys began invading Puerto Rico’s agricultural fields, devastating crops and eluding capture, the major concern was trapping them before they reached urban areas, where they would pose a public health hazard and be nearly impossible to round up.<\/p>\n

Fear is turning to outrage. Authorities recently acknowledged a clan of these pesky moneys, escapees from defunct medical-research laboratories along Puerto Rico’s southern coast, has turned up just 20 minutes outside metropolitan San Juan — home to 1.5 million residents and a virtually unlimited number of hiding places.<\/p>\n

(via J-Walk<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m sure this is far more amusing to read about than actually be in the middle of. 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