A troupe of African monkeys are on the loose after escaping from a remote wildlife facility north of Tampa.Officials at Safari Wild say it may take more than a week to round up all the patas monkeys that ran away on Saturday.The monkeys live on a one-acre island that is surrounded by an eight-foot-deep moat. Officials say one female monkey with a baby on her back swam across the moat Saturday, and the other monkeys followed.The animals arrived Thursday from Puerto Rico, by Saturday, they had vanished.Photo from Flickr, by alyyxphotoSource: St. Petersburg Times
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