Comments on: Monkeys in Louisiana

By: bywbatonrougecrypto

bywbatonrougecrypto — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 20:29:18 +0000

I’ll take the case. My friend Jamie and I might go up there and set-up a couple kennels with string on the door and a bunch of stuff i saw the monkeys getting fed from the kitchen when I was at zoo camp at Brec. Also, my dad had an encounter with a panther somewhere here in LA like 20 years or so back. Coincidentily, he had one with a monkey when he was a boy living in Missisipi, but it escaped from a traveling circus. Bizarre but true. LSU_Crypto, you’re welcome to come.

By: shumway10973

shumway10973 — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 08:33:29 +0000

Are most Americans oblivious to the fact that

1) North America had its share of cousins to African animals?

2) there are several animals living along our southern parts that originated from South America?

Ok, I understand that with the first point, most of the animals I mentioned died out about 2,000 years ago when a volcano erupted, but what’s to say that some monkeys didn’t survive and man’s ego wouldn’t allow us to believe primates lived in North America? Isn’t that pretty much why we are on this website to begin with? As far as the second, I’m of course talking about ones like the armadillo and a few others, most of which are expert swimmers or we know that they probably floated on a log or something like that. Isn’t there suppose to be mini bigfoots or orangutans in the swamps of Louisiana?

By: Mnynames

Mnynames — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 05:14:22 +0000

Since the reporter pulls the urban legend card, it bears repeating that there WERE alligators in the New York sewers, or at least several newspaper accounts of them, back in 1932-35. Less people would bring that up, I think, if they knew there was actually some evidence for it.

By: Raptorial

Raptorial — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:55:52 +0000

I live in Southwest Louisiana. I’ve heard reports of both black panthers and monkeys from around here, so I wouldn’t be surprised if we have hidden primates in this lovely state of ours.

By: alanborky

alanborky — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:32:57 +0000

Is it me, or is the tone of this article ambivalent at best, sneering at worst? He says, “When you start talking about primates in the parish, people get kinda skeptical”, but then immediately quotes “Warner” - note the absence of a less aggressive “Wayne” or respectful “Mr.” - as saying, “If I tell you I saw a monkey, then I saw a monkey”, an antagonized response which is the very antithesis of skeptical, so is the author being sarcastic and thus betraying his own skepticism? In short, he’s getting in so many cynical little digs it makes you wonder how much more interesting and informative this report could’ve been.

By: bill green

bill green — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 06:38:21 +0000

hey Craig very interesting new article.

By: crgintx

crgintx — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 01:59:07 +0000

There’s no reason’s that primates even as large as gorillas couldn’t survive or adapt to colder climates. Other mammals of similar size do such as bears and tigers. Many primates are nocturnal as well or can operate just as well in the dark as well as light.

By: I_M_NOT_A_Yarwen

I_M_NOT_A_Yarwen — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 00:22:05 +0000

Are we talking monkeys or chimps? We have all seen the pictures of the snow monkeys in Japan, but can chimps live in colder regions?

By: hrybeast

hrybeast — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 22:14:22 +0000

Back in the pre-marriage days when I was freelancing, I stopped in a little panhandle Fla. town that was nearly overrun with monkeys. The farm-hatchery-kennel-monkey mill went out, turned the critters loose, and they thrived.

We have Marine Corps-pets-gone-wild cockatiels in the Pinhook area of Duplin County, NC, that survive our freezes. Theoretically, primates should be able to fare better than tropical birds.

And by cracky, if Wayne says he saw a monkey…

By: raisinsofwrath

raisinsofwrath — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:41:20 +0000

If Wayne says he saw a monkey then by golly Wayne saw a monkey!

OK! Wrap it up! We can all go home!