Qualla: Monkey Jungle https://qualla.com/monkey-jungle en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/h/w/c/monkey-jungle-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Monkey Jungle https://qualla.com/monkey-jungle Monkey Jungle: Introduction https://qualla.com/monkey-jungle/ Photo credit Pietro, CC BY-SA 3.0. The tagline says it all: "Where humans are caged and monkeys run wild!" At Monkey Jungle in South Miami, visitors walk through screened tunnels while more than 300 primates swing, leap, and forage freely in a subtropical canopy overhead. The arrangement was not the original plan. In 1933, animal behaviorist Joseph DuMond released six Java macaques into a dense South Florida forest, hoping to study them in a semi-natural habitat. When he opened the grounds to the public to fund his research, the territorial monkeys attacked the wandering guests. DuMond's solution was ingenious: rather than cage the monkeys, he caged the people.

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]]> Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/h/w/c/monkey-jungle-wp/dhwc-monkey-jungle-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Monkey Jungle: Six Monkeys and a Desperate Idea https://qualla.com/monkey-jungle/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. Rlendog assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0. Joseph DuMond came to South Florida in 1933 as an aspiring animal behaviorist with a straightforward ambition: observe primate behavior in something close to a natural environment. He released six Java monkeys into the dense tropical hammock south of Miami and set about watching ...

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]]> Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/h/w/c/monkey-jungle-wp/dhwc-monkey-jungle-six-monkeys-and-a-desperate-idea.mp3 0:06 2 full Monkey Jungle: Ice Age Bones Beneath the Canopy https://qualla.com/monkey-jungle/ Photo credit Pietro, CC BY-SA 3.0. In 1994, archaeologist Robert S. Carr led a dig in naturally occurring sinkholes on Monkey Jungle's property and unearthed fossils more than 10,000 years old. The bones came from creatures that had roamed South Florida during the Pleistocene epoch: American lions, dire wolves, an...

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]]> Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/h/w/c/monkey-jungle-wp/dhwc-monkey-jungle-ice-age-bones-beneath-the-canopy.mp3 0:06 3 full Monkey Jungle: King and the Primatologist https://qualla.com/monkey-jungle/ Photo credit Smothert1, CC BY-SA 3.0. King, a Western lowland gorilla, became Monkey Jungle's most famous resident -- and its most controversial. By 1977, he was the park's sole adult male gorilla, living in isolation, and a public campaign emerged to relocate him to the Atlanta Zoo, which ran a program to re-sociali...

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]]> Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/h/w/c/monkey-jungle-wp/dhwc-monkey-jungle-king-and-the-primatologist.mp3 0:06 4 full Monkey Jungle: The DuMond Conservancy https://qualla.com/monkey-jungle/ Photo credit Leonard Reback, CC BY-SA 3.0. Monkey Jungle's scientific mission lives on through the DuMond Conservancy for Primates and Tropical Forests, its nonprofit research and education affiliate. Staff, volunteers, and university students partner with academic institutions and conservation organizations to study the ...

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