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While the wildfires just north of Houston continue to fluctuate between containment and rage, some of the inhabitants of Waller County are going a little bananas.

After all, they are monkeys.

Yes, you heard us correctly. Word in the forest is that one of the ravaged county’s residents had illegally housed 23 primates, which, with the onset of the fiery catastrophes, were either voluntarily or involuntarily released into the wild.

But since this is the fourth-largest city in the United States, you simply can’t have monkeys running wild across the metropolitan area, Planet of the Apes-style.

So authorities were called in to capture the critters, and that’s when the real monkey business began.

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