{"id":163990,"date":"2025-09-17T21:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T21:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/163990\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T21:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T21:15:07","slug":"capuchin-monkey-on-the-loose-in-troutman-wsoc-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/163990\/","title":{"rendered":"Capuchin monkey on the loose in Troutman \u2013 WSOC TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jyMHRV body-paragraph\">TROUTMAN, N.C. \u2014 Iredell County Animal Services confirmed there is a loose capuchin monkey in Troutman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jyMHRV body-paragraph\">Iredell Firewire posted a video on X showing the monkey hopping on power lines in city limits. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udc12 Monkey Business in Troutman!  <\/p>\n<p>A viewer sent us this wild video early this morning\u2014yes, that\u2019s a monkey making a break for it through Troutman. As of now, no word on whether the little escape artist has been apprehended. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PGaIGLU3vb\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/PGaIGLU3vb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Iredell Firewire (@IredellFirewire) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IredellFirewire\/status\/1968313793781666273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 17, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jyMHRV body-paragraph\">Animal services says the monkey is owned by Zootastic Park in Troutman. They say they are actively working with the park to ensure the monkey is safely recaptured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jyMHRV body-paragraph\">Officials urge the public to stay safe by not attempting to catch, chase or interact with the monkey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jyMHRV body-paragraph\">If you see the monkey, contact Iredell County Animal Services at 704-878-5335.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jyMHRV body-paragraph\">VIDEO: Zebra on the loose in Tennessee<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/https:\/\/d1hfln2sfez66z.cloudfront.net\/06-02-2025\/t_efe99922147142fd99882a8993d1f9a6_name_processed_i.jpeg\"  width=\"800\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-1htor29-0 jibCgM image-metadata\">Zebra on the loose in Tennessee <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jyMHRV body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92025 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TROUTMAN, N.C. \u2014 Iredell County Animal Services confirmed there is a loose capuchin monkey in Troutman. Iredell Firewire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[3729,3,99314,79,2219,1977,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-163990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-local","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-rutherford_county_sheriff","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-tennessee","13":"tag-video","14":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}