Summary Tampa police says the exact species is unknown, but that the sightings appeared to be credible.
TAMPA (Reuters) - Florida authorities vowed on Friday to capture a monkey last seen running through a Tampa neighborhood that they described as "three-foot tall, brown and fast."
A resident initially reported seeing a fleet-footed monkey running through a yard in the middle of a sunny Thanksgiving Day afternoon, Tampa police said.
An hour later, another caller spotted a monkey about a dozen blocks away, near a bridge on a road that is several miles (km) from downtown Tampa.
"There is no probable cause for this monkey s arrest, however, we will work tirelessly to apprehend him," Tampa police said in a Facebook post.
Both sightings occurred near Tampa s Lowry Park Zoo, whose officials told police that its monkeys were all accounted for.
With some on social media questioning whether the primate was a monkey or a chimpanzee, Tampa police clarified that the exact species was unknown, but that the sightings appeared to be credible.
