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Zoo allows runaway monkey a new home in luxurious suburb

A runaway makaki monkey, who fled from a zoo in this northern Serbian 
town last week, has found shelter in an attic of a house in a luxurious 
suburb, residents said.

Two Japanese makaki monkeys escaped during feeding from the Palic zoo 
in Subotica, around 220 kilometres north of Belgrade last week.

One of them has since returned, but the other was seen hiding in the 
attic of a house, with zoo officials refusing to hunt it, residents 
said.

"I called the zoo, but they said we should catch the monkey as it was 
too young to be shot with a tranquiliser because it could die," Zorica 
Juhas said, whose house is next to the monkey's new home.

Juhas said the monkey, considered as harmless for people, "is very 
cute".

"The monkey eats whatever we have in our yards, plums, nuts... 
sometimes he wanders around but it hides from cats and dogs as they are 
bigger," Juhas said.

Ignacije Tonkovic, manager of the Palic zoo, refused to comment on a 
runaway monkey.

"They should catch it soon, winter is coming, the poor animal must be 
cold," Juhas said.

-- AFP