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Five MONKEYS are on the loose in Cincinnati, Ohio – and witnesses say they’re 5 feet tall and hanging out in a cemetery
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The monkeys, of unknown species, are believed to be from a private collection but an owner has not come forward.
Concerned locals had shared video to social media after spotting the animals swinging from trees in St. Joseph’s Cemetery on the city's west side.
"They're sitting right up there," a man is heard saying in the footage.
"Oh my God look, three of them right there."
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Officers responded to the scene at 10pm Wednesday night but the monkeys were nowhere to be seen.
An animal officer noted that monkeys tend to find a place to rest at nighttime.
One woman said she'd walked outside to get her cat when she noticed them.
"I thought the monkeys was gone I started making jokes showing my mom," Alycha Tucker told .
"My mom thought I was crazy. I said, 'look there's monkeys out here.' Then I heard it making the noises, not 'ooh ooh aah aah' stuff, but grunts, so I didn't know what it was.
"I just stood there as my eyes adjusted to pitch blackness and that is when I saw it, just standing there, taller than garbage can, and its arms were real long hanging down and its arms are real skinny."
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No other sightings have been reported as of Thursday afternoon after police and zoo officials continued their search in the daylight.
However, they said they believed the residents' account and that their story appeared “real.”
“There’s not much we can do until we have a confirmed sighting by ,” David Orban, the zoo’s director for animal science and strategy, told
He noted that the video footage was too dark and blurry to confirm that it was monkeys and said “numerous types of animals can occupy trees.”
“Until we are able to identify them in the daylight, it’s hard to know," he said.
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"The Cincinnati Zoo will be here to assist and confirm, but at this point we need a confirmed sighting. If anyone does have a confirmed sighting of these monkeys they should call Cincinnati police.”
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If there are any sightings, Orban advised people to remember that monkeys are "wild animals."
"The best thing to do is to call the Cincinnati Police Department and let them know they have a sighting," he added.
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