A wild rhesus macaque was noticed swinging round city in Orange City, Florida, a suburb of Orlando over the previous week. 

The Orange City Police Department requested residents Wednesday to report any sightings to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission, and above all to not monkey with the monkey.

Authorities particularly warned towards makes an attempt to feed or seize the macaque.

Police stated studies have been coming in relating to the rogue rhesus macaque since Friday. Thus far, it has made a monkey out of authorities attempting to corral it.

“We would send someone out to that area, no luck, we can’t find it, and it just kept going on. Several days throughout the several days,” OCPD advised WESH-TV.

Residents who've noticed the macaque have been stunned to see it of their city.

“I look over and I’m like, ‘Is this real? This cannot be possible.’ The monkey’s smart because he looked at the traffic and he knew not to go that way,” Kim Bialobos, a shift supervisor at an Orange City Popeyes restaurant, advised WOFL-TV.

Feeding wild monkeys, a FWC brochure posted by the OCPD on Facebook warns, is a second-degree misdemeanor punishable by a high-quality of as much as $500 and 60 days in jail.

Rhesus macaques, native to Asia, had been first launched to Florida within the Thirties; a breeding inhabitants of the primates exists in Silver Springs State Park 60 miles to the northwest of Orange City, in line with University of Florida researchers.

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