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  • From: Carrie McLaren <carrie AT stayfreemagazine.org>
  • To: monkeywire AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Idiot DJ Hunts Danville's Missing Monkey
  • Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 17:02:27 -0500


The Union Leader (Manchester NH)
October 06, 2001 Saturday ALL EDITIONS

SECTION: SECTION B Pg. 10

LENGTH: 598 words

HEADLINE: DJ's monkey hunt in Danville 'jungle' flops

BYLINE: JASON SCHREIBER Union Leader Correspondent

BODY:
DANVILLE -- Donnie White learned an important lesson in monkey hunting yesterday morning: You can look like a big, hairy ape and act like one too, but it still won't guarantee success when attempting to attract a tiny capuchin monkey lost in the woods.
White, a former ice cream truck driver who is now a radio disc jockey, set out on his "Donnie in the Mist" monkey mission just before sunrise yesterday in the jungles of Danville. His goal was to catch that missing monkey.

White, the promotions manager and a DJ at WHOB, 106.3 FM in Nashua, decided to take the monkey search into his owns hands by renting a gorilla costume and heading out into the woods. He figured he'd give it a shot because all attempts to lure the monkey, which have included bringing a female monkey to the area where the male monkey is living, have failed. "The bottom line is it's all about saving the monkey," White stressed. But somehow his mission was more like entertainment.

In the end, just like everyone else, White went home monkeyless. But his search isn't over. White is determined to find the monkey, and he vowed to return to the woods in his gorilla get-up.

"If (the search team) can't find it Saturday, I'll be back," said White, who may return to the area tomorrow with his costume and remain living in the wild until the monkey is caught. That would mean he'd have to broadcast his radio show from the woods, something he's willing to do. It's important to note that White was among the 500 prospective contestants chosen from a total of 80,000 people who sent in applications hoping to appear on the reality-TV show "Survivor."

In his gorilla suit, White walked the streets of local neighborhoods bright and early yesterday morning, asking residents if they knew where the monkey was living now. Residents were just waking up and were a bit surprised that a man would dress up as a gorilla to find the monkey.

Bob Grosso, 62, thought Halloween came early this year when he looked out his kitchen window and saw White approaching his house. "I don't have any candy out," he said he thought to himself.

Grosso was not at all convinced that White's plan would be successful. "It ain't gonna work," he told him.

White provided updates on his search via a cell phone throughout the morning on WHOB's "Morin In the Morning" show.

Residents who have seen and heard the monkey said White's gorilla costume would most likely scare the monkey away rather than lure it in. "I'm sorry, you're not a very pretty monkey," Tara Eaton told White.

Earlier in the morning, White got lost on his drive from Nashua to Danville and called the Rockingham County Sheriff's Department for directions. The department then warned Danville Police Chief Wade Parsons to be on the lookout for a man in a gorilla suit roaming around town.

Parsons eventually met up with White and flung a large animal net over him to catch him. The capture was only for fun, and a few minutes later Parsons let him loose to continue his hunt.

While Animal Control Officer Denise Laratonda declined to give White specifics on the location of the trap in the woods where the monkey's now living, she did offer a few clues to at least bring him close to the area.

White attempted to make some monkey calls, but neighbors said his sounds weren't quite right. "It sounds kind of like a sick owl," Pam Harrington said of the noises made by the real monkey.


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  • Idiot DJ Hunts Danville's Missing Monkey, Carrie McLaren, 10/12/2001

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