NEW YORK, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- A fugitive monkey sought by New York health officials after biting a woman is living in a Florida facility for wayward monkeys, officials said.
Weeks after biting Parvin Hajihossini while she was snapping his picture a Catskill, N.Y., resort, the capuchin monkey named Benjamin was found living at Jungle Friends habitat in Gainesville, Fla., the New York Daily New reported.
Jungle Friends owner Kari Bagnall said Benjamin's owner, renowned painter Allen Hirsch, stayed with him at the 12-acre sanctuary for several weeks before leaving for Venezuela last month.
At the time, Greene County, N.Y., health officials were seeking Benjamin to check him for rabies -- a test that requires the animal be euthanized so the brain can be dissected.
This isn't Benjamin's first stay at the habitat, Bagnall said, noting Hirsch brought him there several years ago after he attacked someone else.
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