Florida is a semi tropical state and more fragile than most in the US. We need to protect it, not keep hurting it. I'm glad these guys are protected, left alone. I get so tired of pet owners being irresponsible and letting them go or not containing them well enough. Best wishes for this sanctuary. Keep Florida wild !!!

Really cool and informative video as always! I knew there were a number of primate populations here in Florida, but wasn’t aware of the management of these Vervet monkeys.

I was shocked to find out there are Vervets in South Florida!! I live in North Florida and have been to Silver Springs and seen the monkeys there. I have been watching the Vervet Monkey Foundation in South Africa on KZfaq for 3 years and have learned so much them. VMF rescues and introduces orphaned and injured baby monkeys into the troops there. They have also started rescuing Samango’s! And have small Samango troop now. Check the VMF videos out!! Thank you for the video!! I love the Vervets!!!

very interesting how these guys have been able to survive and produce there. i wonder what florida will look like in 30 years.

great video!! hi gabby and chris!! you all doing awesome job!! have a good evening. i hope all is well.

I remember feeding these monkeys in the 1970’s at FAU. It was a favorite past time. I’m glad they managed to survive, but didn’t become invasive. I didn’t know then what I know now about feeding wild animals.

Great video! Is this place open to the public? If not, how did you guys get access? I can't believe that there are wild monkeys in Florida.

I’ve seen those guys in north Miami Beach at greynolds park

Wow this is so interesting!!!

The Roosevelt family needs to fund this.

It's incredible (but so Florida😄) that there are wild monkeys here! There are also 4 or 5 spider monkeys on Monkey Island in the Homasassa River.💚

Chris, I'm happy you produced this video. I'm unsure that spending a gazillion dollars to sterilize and cage 17/40 wild monkeys that have managed to thrive undisturbed here for 40 years is the right more. I would definitely love to see that money spend on our local homeless population, improving our parks, etc.

First off Gabby you should probably have some knee high waterproof boots. 🙂 Now can they Humanly tag or Collar one or two of these cool creatures to monitor they're habits like "Traveling Patterns" if they would spread farther out for maybe human food as talked about? Thxs for the video!

Great Videos. I'm interesting

As a Florida native and wildlife lover, I have often thought about the best way to handle our groups of wild monkeys. The conclusion I came to is basically, the same approach they are hoping to take here; sterilization and letting the existing animals live out the rest of their lives in their current location. I really hope this project gets the backing it needs! Missy the director, seems like a very special person, with compassion and intelligence making her just as remarkably beautiful on the inside, as she is on the outside.

Those tails! Great video! Had no idea those monkeys lived out there.

The vervet monkey population is not the issue, they are awesome, the rhesus macaques will end up being the problem later down the road. They have been migrating north and west. They estimate there are almost 3 to 5k in the wild and the majority have herpes B. Hopefully the python can help curve that population. As well as the wild hogs.

I just found out about these little guys here in Florida and actually was able to see them and it was just wonderful. I also heard great things from those that run into them often. I understand that this may sound like a good thing, but at the same time I don't understand why do this now when these little guys have thrived and survived for all these years. It's truly fascinating and they seem happy just running wild and staying in the same area pretty much for all these years. I am no expert, but I absolutely love animals and I don't fully understand why do this if they have been here since the 1940s and their numbers have not declined and they are not harming the environment either. To catch them now and spay/neuter them just sounds sad to me. They seem to be living just fine..years of their survival prove this, so why now. My first experience with Vervet Monkeys was in Africa, as I stated I have a passion for animals and decided to go to Africa and I had an absolutely amazing experience with 100% wild Vervet Monkeys and I saw a few with injuries, like half an arm, etc. I also saw people feeding them, once again these were 100% wild Vervet Monkeys all over Kenya in Africa. Basically everything these monkeys go through here in Florida, also happens in the wild in Africa, so I genuinely don't see why this is so necessary. They've been here decades harming no one and surviving, so why cut that. I believe just let the wild be wild, some will be injured, some might eat junk, some might get hit by a car, but this is all part of being wild. It is the same for them in Africa. They are around cars too, people feed them, and they have injuries. I'm not 100% sure, but from what I know they should just be left alone like they've been for all these years, which is a whole lot of years. They sure bring a lot of joy and seem perfectly happy.

Just wondering, maybe I misunderstood, they are sterilizing the monkeys, but at the very end of the video she mentioned that one of the females has given birth to two babies, one of which is shown. Great video

What do they do when a hurricane comes thru?

Long time no see guys I'm so sorry I haven't been around I had a family emergency but all is well now and I'm back excellent video!

This is so interesting. you guys need to do a podcast and talk with other experts about various topics.

Wherever this location is it sounds like it’s near a Freeway or Highway. Hopefully they stay within certain boundaries and don’t venture out often. But I could be wrong about the sounds I’m hearing. It possibly is something else.

WOW:)!!! Those are some seriously adorable monkeys😁. Chris & Gabby, this was a great educational video, and I am so thankful to have learned about these little guys! I find it very fascinating that these monkeys do not increase in numbers given all the years that they have had. I must admit I do feel a bit sad at the thought of them going extinct, even though I do understand that they are an invasive species. It really angers me to think of the poachers trapping them, and then to selling them. What is y’all’s thoughts on the things that Missy said? Like the *stoping* the monkeys from being able to reproduce, and captivity…etc. Do you both agree? (Hope you don’t mind me asking):)

this was so cool!

Those monkeys are escaped criminals. I know that you cannot arrest their descendants, but it's still makes me mad.

Nice ,,,,,,, 100

Unfortunately the 40 or so seemingly fixed quantity is well like they are saying right now ....a limit that will eventually go to zero without deliberate breeding because they don't like to breed inside their troop / family.

Wow!! How lucky is Chris!! Not only does he get to travel to Africa to swim and film Nile crocodiles but then he gets to come home and hang with not just one but two very attractive and caring Florida naturalists!! Living the dream my friend!! :>) Jim C.

This video will sure bring out the crazys to come trap them.

There's also a breeding facility in Florida for macaques.

So let me make sure I understand, so you all don't want anymore monkeys in Florida once the population you have now has died off? Well that just doesn't seem right, however I guess I understand the overpopulating and human intervention could be a potential problem. Thanks for sharing. I truly wish you all the best of luck and I think it's great that they are protected. Also the work you do for these monkeys is awesome. Truly good luck.

Are monkeys and apes dangerous animals? How dangerous are they?

Excellent video with two beautiful hostesses

A mass migration of monkeys departed from South and Southeast Asia to arrive to Florida

Bring them some Avocado 🥑??

Precious babies!!!! I love this! Thank you so much

Loves it

I usually come catch a couple here and there. No laws. Invasive.

These monkeys are so cute! I'm so glad there's people protecting them!!

There should be stricter rules and enforcement on non native animals allowed in this country.

Predicted to go extinct , dam that sounds so wrong lol . Off topic but shes very hot too . Lol

The snakes eat the monkeys

These monkeys live to close to people it's dangerous for them and the people that live there. They need to move them to a less populated area. 🐒

Respectfully disagree with this...First encounter with these monkeys was about 20 years ago eastbound on Dania Bch Blvd before the Intracoastal bridge...there were 2 of them up in a sable palm in the median and they both jumped down as I drove by and disappeared into the brush around 6:45 AM...They've survived there twice the number of years you or I have been in existence...Sterilization and basically entrapment is worse than one monkey accidentally being hit by a car...Again my opinion...I appreciate the care you have for these creatures but do not agree with the end result

Florida will be under water in 100 years, anyway?

They aren’t invasive and aren’t going to be anytime soon and as stated they’re just naturalized so just leave them alone and let them be, if anything it’s a conservation population.

I know exactly how they got there and I know that they need to go. You’re gonna have people with machine guns blowing them away

I don't understand the python thing. If they're in Florida to stay, and you're not going to be able to get rid of them all, why try? Why round up and kill a few at a time when it does no good in the long term big picture?

You’re going to let them Die out, that’s like genocide… these are animals, a living being! Let them LIVE!!!

Interesting video, thanks. Hmm...since they are only in that area, is it possible to release other (2 or 3) unwanted monkeys from zoos or confiscated private rescues so 1. help them and 2. bring some fresh blood into the group. This project could stay on to contain this group there and educate people. Just a thought.

All I can think about is how many animals can live better by eating these monkeys. Like floridas big cats and gators.

Capture or kill invasive species

Sterilize them now before it’s out of control and tag each one to get an actual count . Some how I don’t believe 30 monkeys is the number unless the crocs are doing a good job every year lol!!!

Florida panthers could eat them

Pobrecito they get electrocuted !!!

Wow the tall host looks like a more beautiful blonde Angela Jolie.

There exterminating them slowly

Tragic, just leave them be the population has never changed, why spay and neuter.

It's so sad that their primary source of food is from humans. That's probably a negative enough impact to keep the population low. I love Florida and I miss a lot of things about living there. I hope it won't be ruined.

It’s nit compassionate to feed animals junk food…