No more monkey business: Vasectomies for primates
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAO PAULO - The monkey business is about to end for some Brazilian primates.
Health officials in the central city Goiania plan to perform vasectomies on 25 wild, urban-dwelling monkeys to keep their population in check and control disease. They're looking to catch male Capuchin monkeys in three city parks, each of which has about eight female mates.
The animals will be netted, snipped and released.
The parks' monkey population has grown to about 170 in recent months and project head Marize Moreira said Thursday some have been found to carry yellow fever.
Sick monkeys can't pass the disease directly to humans but mosquitoes that bite infected monkeys can transmit it.
Yellow fever my ass. This is a revenge ploy plain and simple. The war between monkeys and humans has been brewing since the first time we put a monkey in a suit. The monkeys struck back with a horrible attack on some old woman a couple months ago and now the human counterattack is upon us. I bet the monkeys win. Get your paws off me you damn dirty apes!
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