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10:46, 19-Sep-2017
Police rescue nationally-protected monkey in SW China
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Police rescued a nationally-protected monkey by chance when searching for drug smuggling in Ning'er County of southwest China's Yunnan Province Wednesday afternoon.
Found on a bus and carried by a passenger as a pet, the monkey was bought from Xishuangbanna, a famous tourist attraction in Yunnan. Weighing only 300 grams, the baby monkey was carefully transferred to the local forest police.
As the animal was young and probably got afraid on the way to the forest police station, it was too nervous to eat anything at first. After being pacified, the monkey finally got relaxed and began to take food, even to play with police officers there.
"The little monkey was identified as a macaque, a second-class nationally-protected animal in China. According to the relevant regulation of the wildlife conservation law, any unit or individual cannot raise wild animals without permission from the wildlife protection department," said Zhou Wenrun, instructor of the criminal investigation division of Ning'er Forest Public Security Bureau.
As the monkey was too young to be released into the wild, it was further sent to a wildlife rescue center in Pu'er City on Friday.