Watch: Loose monkey captured under Houston pickup truck
Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Houston police responding to a report of an aggressive animal said they were shocked when they arrived on the scene and discovered the animal in question was a monkey.
The Houston Police Department said officers arrived in the Telephone Road neighborhood and were told the monkey had bit a neighbor and fought with a dog before fleeing under a pickup truck.
"We go under the truck and there is a monkey hanging from the axles of the truck and he looked pretty beat up," Officer Jesse Rodriguez told KTRK-TV.
Police were concerned the monkey might feel threatened and attempt to defend itself, so they summoned personnel from the city's BARC animal shelter for assistance.
BARC officials were able to successfully contain the primate. They said the monkey would be taken to a specialist rehabilitation facility while police work to identify its owners and determine whether it should be returned home.
"It's definitely a first. It wasn't something we were expecting when we got dispatched out there," Rodriguez told KABB-TV.
