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Two pebbly droppings deposited on her patio are all that Stephanie Bunyan has to remind her of Thursday morning’s celebrity guest. Honshu the missing macaque was finally captured in Bunyan’s garden after five days and four nights on the run and after drone search technology was rendered useless by blustery weather. In the end, it was the yorkshire pudding that got him.
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There were peanuts in the feeders but on Wednesday night she put out some leftover yorkshire pudding. In the morning it was gone. And just after 10am “there he was at the top of the steps, looking in the window”.
The desire to capture her visitor on camera was powerful but she knew she had to get hold of Highland wildlife park straight away. Within 10 minutes of her call to its dedicated monkey hotline, the search drone operators had arrived, and minutes later the park keepers.
By then the macaque was hopping back and forth off the low roof of her sun room and playing in the gutters. It took some time for the rangers to line up their desired tranquilliser dart shot – when one attempt failed, the macaque “bit it and threw it away”, Bunyan said.
But the next shot was true and the doped monkey was whisked away for examination by the park’s vet.
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A good Yorkshire pudding is worth sticking around for. Where is her monkey catching recipe?
I want “monkey-catching recipe” to become a thing. It’s much more entertaining and interesting than “prize-winning.”
It’d make the contest for the best one far more entertaining.
‘Ah Mrs. Stumblebum your recipe is good however Mrs. Bandersnatches recipe has attracted three monkeys to your one. Clearly hers is the one to bring all the monkeys to the yard’.
Picturing a massive Yorkshire pudding on a stick with some string attached to it.
That’s exactly how it went down. I imagine.
Coincidentally, this came up in my newsfeed: People driving six hours to try pub’s Yorkies size of a baby basket
I lost it at “dedicated monkey hotline”. Good show.
I think we need more of this kind of thing.
Don’t forget that he was first found eating the guy’s nuts.
The monster!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Honshu the missing macaque was finally captured in Bunyan’s garden after five days and four nights on the run and after drone search technology was rendered useless by blustery weather.
Bunyan likes to drink her morning coffee looking out on to her peaceful terraced garden, which is decorated with tinkling wind chimes and boasts an array of bird feeders.
During that time, the lone monkey covered a considerable amount of ground, roaming four miles to the north of the park and gradually heading back in a homebound direction.
One was lent to the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) by the Cairngorm mountain rescue team, who used it as a training exercise, and another search was coordinated by Ben Harrower, who runs a consultancy that specialises in monitoring and tracking wildlife populations.
Carl Nagle was one of the first local residents to enjoy a visit from Honshu, getting awakened by his daughter on Sunday morning with the unexpected alert: “Dad, there’s a monkey in the street!”
He found Honshu investigating his back garden bird feeders, one of which remains bent out of shape from the monkey’s efforts to extract some nuts.
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