Gibraltar authorities say they will kill 25 monkeys annoying and endangering people at this British colony's tourism areas, a move that has angered conservationists. Gibraltar tourism minister Ernest Britto made the decision to cull the Barbary macaques because the monkeys enter and ransack rooms of hotels in Catalan Bay and Sandy Bay looking for food. The Belfast Telegraph also quoted the minister as saying that the apes frighten children and their bites can cause salmonella and hepatitis infection.

A monkey that was smuggled from Peru to New York under a man's hat died while in the custody of federal agents. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were looking for a permanent home when the tamarin monkey died in quarantine, explained spokeswoman Shelly Diaz. "The cause of death was undetermined," the New York Daily News quoted Diaz. "This was an unexplained death of an otherwise healthy monkey. "

Hundreds of displaced monkeys from a demolished wildlife park have made an Indonesian village their new sanctuary burglarizing homes and demanding food from villagers. An Antara report quote a resident of Mangliawan village in East Java province as telling a local news website that the macaque invasion started three months ago when their sanctuary in the nearby Wendit recreational park was partly cleared to give way to new structures.

Indian police are on a monkey hunt in northern India after a South Korean tourist accused a monkey of stealing his reading glasses. According to Investigating Case Officer Govind Singh, Kim Dang Hoon has already filed a formal complaint stating that the primate intruded into his room.

A capuchin monkey is under the custody of the Montgomery County Division of Animal Control and Humane Treatment in Maryland, after authorities seized the animal from a woman who was raising the baby as her own. Elyse Gazewitz says her 1-year-old, 18-inch monkey, Armani, was like a baby to her and has been battling the state for custody. A Maryland law forbids possessing a "nonhuman primate," including monkeys, as a pet.