2024-02-01 18:07:07
“Following a call received just after 10 a.m., our keepers and our team of drone pilots went to a private garden where the monkey was feeding in a bird feeder, and they managed to catch him using a tranquilizer dart,” Keith Gilchrist, one of the zoo’s managers, said in a statement.
The young monkey must be examined by a veterinarian before being reunited with the other subadult males in its group, he said.
Honshu was spotted on Wednesday and tracked for 45 minutes using drones, but it was safer to capture him at a time when he was not roaming free.
The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland had assured that this male was not considered dangerous to humans or domestic animals, but had however advised against approaching him.
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