Eight monkeys died inside SP showing signs of drunkenness and violence

Last week, the São Paulo State Civil Police launched an investigation to investigate several cases of poisoning, aggression and monkey death in the São José do Rio Preto (SP) area. Since the beginning of the month, eleven animals of the marmoset and capuchin species have been rescued by the Environmental Police. with signs of injury that indicate abuse.

The zoo’s latest update (9) on Tuesday features eight primates drunk, four black-tasseled marmosets died. The other four were capuchin monkeys, one of whom died and the remaining three were stable. Monday (8), the institution received three more marmosets, with signs of aggressiondid not recover from the wounds.

Why do monkeys get attacked?

The main suspicion of the Environmental Military Police regarding the cause of animal aggression and poisoning is: fear monkey flower (monkey flower), a contagious disease among peopleinjuries, bodily fluids, respiratory droplets and through direct contact with contaminated materials such as bedding.

If that’s the case, besides being brutal, the motivation is completely inadequate, since the disease is indeed a zoonosis – an infection that can be transmitted from animals to humans. main vector is rodents, like mice and prairie dogs, not monkeys. The name monkeypox was devised because the virus was first detected in monkeys in 1958, but primates are the main contaminants of the disease to humans.