Monkey Jungle got its start in the ’30s when Joseph DuMond released a troop of monkeys into a dense patch of South Dade wilderness and then opened it as a one-of-a-kind attraction “where humans are ...

On a recent vacation to Florida, I visited a Miami tourist attraction called Monkey Jungle. More than a week later, the image of a despondent gorilla named King still haunts me. His cage looked to be ...

Melanie Lustig walked out of her job at Monkey Jungle in mid-September. The last straw, she says, was scooping up piles of rotten fruit and feces inside an enclosure where the park’s orangutan, Mei, ...