Monkey roundup

• Pygmy marmoset Machu busted out of the Wellington Zoo, a fortnight after he and female friend Picchu moved in. He appeared to be following in the pawprints of Minty the monkey, who spent a week on the lam.
• Suminori Maeda, 51, of the Chiba Prefecture, mistakenly shot Masayoshi Murakoshi, 72, with a shotgun in a mountain forest in the city of Kimitsu at around 9:30 Sunday morning while they were participating in a municipal monkey eradication program.
• Thailand is wrestling with 2,500 macaques who live in and around Lopburi, where they skitter and scramble on ancient Hindu-Buddhist shrines and Khmer-style pagodas, as well as the neighborhoods and marketplaces.

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