Sightings of the monkeys have been reported in the O’Fallon Park neighbourhood in the north of the city, and Hauser believed they were still in this area on Sunday.<\/p>\n
“Original reports suggested there were four animals, but we cannot confirm an actual number at this time, only that there is more than one,” Hauser said.<\/p>\n
Marva Young, who lives in the neighbourhood, told local news network KSDK: “I think of the danger, because that’s a wild animal.”<\/p>\n
Another resident told the network it was “crazy” that they could be nearby.<\/p>\n
Pictures of the primates perched on a porch-side wall and standing on two legs near a parked car have been shared on social media.<\/p>\n
Animal care and control officers have patrolled the area but have not yet managed to locate the monkeys.<\/p>\n
“We are working to get an idea of where they may be hiding or seeking food,” Hauser said.<\/p>\n
“We want to stress that residents should not approach these monkeys or try to capture them.”<\/p>\n
Instead, people should report sightings to the health department, he said.<\/p>\n
“Once captured, the monkeys will be transported to a facility certified to care for exotic animals.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sightings of the monkeys have been reported in the O’Fallon Park neighbourhood in the north of the city,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-366301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}