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There's been another monkey sighting One witness thinks it was monkey, her husband isn't so sure. To him, it looked more like a meerkat, only twice as big as meerkats usually get to be With several research links. Still no photographs, but evidence mounts there is something unusual out there. By Ed Waggener Jason Cox and Danny Biggerstaff have taken some ribbing about the monkey sighting they so courageously reported after spotting the animals fleeing from what may have been an attempted food raid at Cox's residence. The sighting took place Thursday, May 21, 2008. Their story is now corroborated by another sighting of what seems to be one of the same animals. We're posting the story today, almost exactly 167 hours after the second sighting was made on Saturday, May 22, 2008, at 9:00amCT, on a clear day on Kentucky 55, the Campbellsville Road, near the Spectrum Care Academy, just south of Cane Valley, KY. The thing darted out in front of Nancy and Buddy Smith of Page Street in Columbia, went to the middle of the road, stopped, and darted back to the Spectrum Care side, as they slowed down. 'That was one of those monkeys I read about' "I wouldn't say it was a monkey. It had a longer, more pointed nose than a monkey has," Buddy Smith said. "But Nancy said, 'There's one of those monkeys I read about.'" Buddy Smith thinks that possibly, his wife thought it looked like a monkey because, having read about the sighting made by Mister Cox and 'Staff, her mind could have played a trick on her. Thought it was a meerkat, but it was too big "I thought it looked more like a meerkat," he said. But the size of the animal, three feet tall with a tail almost as long, would preclude that possibility, he said. "Meerkats are only about one-half that size," he said. The animal was colored much as Jason Cox described the Conover Lane monkeys. "It was kind of striped," he said, "it was colored much like a meerkat." Jason Cox described the Conover Lane monkeys as brown, Buddy Smith thought the animal he saw was "goldish." Smith estimated this animal's weight at 25 pounds. "At first I thought it was a coyote cub," he said. "But we got close enough to see that it wasn't that." Buddy Smith says he doesn't want to say for sure what he thinks it was, though. The sighting was so brief. "It could have been a sick dog. It looked a little sickly when it ran back to the side of the road." When it ran its back would hump The animal's gait may be a clue. Buddy Smith says that when it ran, its back would hump. He was asked about the possibility of it being a river otter or a weasel and said, "No, I know them. It wasn't either of them." His wife, Nancy, a retired school principal and the passenger last Saturday, was more sure of what she saw. "She still thinks it was a monkey," Buddy Smith says. And that's the opinion of many who ponder what the animals may be. One person, who asked not to be identified, said he believed the animals are monkeys. "Think about," he said. "they just caught that guy in Taylor County keeping all the poisonous snakes. I bet you check on him or somebody like him around here, and you'll find they had monkeys and the monkeys either got away, or the owner turned them loose." Second sighting only few hours from first The location of the animal the Smith's saw is only a few miles cross country from the Conover Lane monkey sighting. "The monkeys were headed for the parkway," Jason Cox said. "They could have gone over the fences, across highway 80, over into Dr. Webb's, and it wouldn't be too far over there." And with the second sighting being two days from the time Cox and 'Staff saw what they saw, the animal wouldn't be moving so fast but that one might believe they are still in Adair County. Related: Meerkat entry, Wikipedia "2 monkeys, or monkey-like animals, spotted near Conover Ln.," the first on the subject, posted on 2008-05-22 11:22:11, after animals sighted the day before. "B.J. Fudge issues hypothesis on monkey presence here/WERE THEY LEMURS?" Posted on 2008-05-25 10:43:23 Lemur entry, Wikipedia "Letter: What Jason, 'Staff may have seen" from skeptic who thought monkeys could have been two juveniles. This story was posted on 2008-05-31 08:22:34
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