{"id":258970,"date":"2025-11-03T04:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T04:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/258970\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T04:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T04:31:09","slug":"escaped-monkey-in-mississippi-killed-by-frightened-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/258970\/","title":{"rendered":"Escaped Monkey in Mississippi Killed By Frightened Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mississippi Missing Monkeys
\n Terrified Mom Kills Monkey to Protect Children<\/p>\n

\n Published November 2, 2025 5:13 PM PST\n <\/p>\n

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One of the escaped monkeys in Mississippi was shot and killed Sunday morning by a mom who told the Associated Press she feared for the safety of her children.<\/p>\n

The AP reports Jessica Bond Ferguson — a mother-of-five living in Heidelberg, Mississippi — was alerted to a monkey running in the yard outside their home by her 16-year-old son this morning … and, when she looked, she says the monkey was just 60 feet from her home.<\/p>\n

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Ferguson told the outlet she fired her gun … \u201cI did what any other mother would do to protect her children. I shot at it and it just stood there, and I shot again, and he backed up and that’s when he fell.\u201d<\/p>\n

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As you know … a truck overturned<\/a> in late October that was carrying Rhesus monkeys from Tulane National Biomedical Research Center in Louisiana — leading to 21 monkeys escpaing the vehicle.<\/p>\n


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13 were coralled by authorities, five were shot on sight after a supervisor mistakenly claimed<\/a> the monkeys were infected with COVID, herpes, and hepatitis C — authorities later clarified they weren’t — but three escaped into the wild.<\/p>\n

One of the other three monkeys was found and captured by authorities Sunday as well … so, it appears only one is still on the loose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mississippi Missing Monkeys Terrified Mom Kills Monkey to Protect Children Published November 2, 2025 5:13 PM PST One…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-258970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}