{"id":179573,"date":"2025-09-24T23:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T23:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/179573\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T23:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T23:15:08","slug":"escaped-capuchin-monkey-in-iredell-county-was-hit-by-a-car-officials-say-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/179573\/","title":{"rendered":"Escaped Capuchin monkey in Iredell County was hit by a car, officials say :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The monkey that was on the loose in Iredell County was found, but not in a way many would expect.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/state\/monkey-loose-iredell-county-october-2023\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Capuchin monkey that escaped from Zootastic Park<\/a> was hit by a car Tuesday in the Troutman area, Iredell County officials confirmed. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcnc.com\/article\/news\/local\/monkey-escaped-iredell-county-zoo-hit-by-vehicle\/275-ff4fa608-c607-442c-88bd-9c6d3cee6241\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WCNC reported<\/a> that the animal was still alive when it was returned to its owner. The county has not provided an update on the monkey&#8217;s condition as of Wednesday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Exactly one week ago, officials with the county\u2019s animal services said in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid02hfohpKP878dYLuqNWQ8CPKziHnpR5bEAQhWh51W2kxcktpwx96agfgrYL3WdN7Dal&amp;id=100066419354446\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">post on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0that the\u00a0 Capuchin was on the loose in the Troutman area of Iredell County. Pictures showed a monkey climbing utility poles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No further details about the incident have been made public right now. Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call Iredell County Animal Services at 704-878-5335.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The monkey that was on the loose in Iredell County was found, but not in a way many&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-179573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179573","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=179573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}