Monkey business: inside the world's most controversial farm

Susan Campbell first heard about the monkey farm from her neighbor William Stephens. It was the summer of 2013, and Stephens explained to her the troubling news.

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Someone had purchased a plot of land in their rural neighborhood in south-central Florida and was about to begin construction on a farm to breed, of all things, monkeys.

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The details were hazy. But as her neighbor rattled off what he knew—the county had already approved a plan to have up to 3,000 or so monkeys live on the premises—Campbell listened anxiously.

She recognised the site he was describing, a patch of land by Bedman Creek, where the main road hits a dead end, roughly a mile from her home. How much noise could 3,000 monkeys make, she wondered.

Her two wolfdogs, Diablo and Apache, were going to “flip out,” she later recalled thinking.

Campbell, 62, and her husband live on the outskirts of LaBelle, a small town on the banks of the Caloosahatchee River.

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Monkey business: inside the world's most controversial farm

Monkey business: inside the world's most controversial farm

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