Escaped Lab Monkeys Overrun Crops


	Escaped Lab Monkeys Overrun Crops

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6-14-2007 9:33 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5fc9ef26-5731-4c9e-9e16-b4b0c350738a/BE890994-34DE-44B7-A7BC-2B674FE98B2B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.topix.net/content/ap/2007/06/puerto-rico-lays-traps-for-monkeys-2" href="http://www.topix.net/content/ap/2007/06/puerto-rico-lays-traps-for-monkeys-2" style="font-size: 11px;">www.topix.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.topix.net/content/ap/2007/06/puerto-rico-lays-traps-for-monkeys-2"><P>Authorities in <A href="http://www.topix.net/world/puerto-rico" class="xref">Puerto Rico</A> are using cages and mangos to try to trap hundreds of marauding monkeys _ descendants of escaped research animals _ and hope to send them off to sanctuaries or labs, or to kill them.</P> <P>Since the first eight traps were set out two weeks ago, the primates have snatched the bait and eluded capture in traps set by Puerto Rico's natural resources agency _ drawing ridicule from local farmers who blame the monkeys for devastating melon, pepper and pumpkin <A href="http://www.topix.net/science/agriculture" class="xref">crops</A> over the last decade.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BE890994-34DE-44B7-A7BC-2B674FE98B2B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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