Return to Monkey Island

I stumbled across this article after reading a WSJ diatribe on Michael Kinsley. It seems lab researchers let rhesus monkeys take over an entire island in the Florida Keys.

Lois Key and nearby Racoon Key are owned by Charles River Laboratories, the world's biggest producer of lab animals. For decades, the company raised rhesus monkeys on the islands and allowed them to range free on Lois Key.

"They ate the trees, they ate the coastal mangroves and actually killed the trees," said Ed Davidson of the Florida Audubon Society. "The shoreline eroded, and the monkey droppings wash out into the public waters. This is really a mess."

Special prize for the first update on Lois Key.