From Newsgroup: sci.anthropology.paleo
Note - the monkey have been there for decades and
are not obligate bipeds despite all that swimming...
https://www.ocala-news.com/2025/10/22/kayakers-capture-video-of-monkeys-jumping-into-water-at-silver-springs-state-park/
A viral video captured by a couple at Silver Springs
State Park shows dozens of monkeys cannonballing into
the waters at the park.
Trenda Kitchen obtained the video of the rhesus
macaque monkeys diving into the waters while she and
her husband were kayaking at the park recently.
...
Rhesus macaque monkeys were first introduced into the
Silver Springs area over 85 years ago, by Colonel
Tooey, a tour boat operator who released just six of
the animals onto the island that was later converted
into the park.
Tooey was unfamiliar with the swimming proficiency of
the monkeys, which are known to be able to swim across
bodies of water up to a mile wide. The monkeys escaped
and six more monkeys were brought in.
Now, the monkeys number in the hundreds.
...
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