Wild monkeys invaded Florida. Should people protect them?

Without intervention, the vervets of Dania Beach could go extinct within the next century

Two vervet monkeys play on top of a car. They look like they're wrestling.

Vervet monkeys play on top of a car at an airport park-and-fly near Dania Beach, Fla.

Rebecca Blackwell/AP Photo

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