For more than 40 years, visitors to Launceston’s City Park have been able to view Japanese macaques frolicking about in their enclosure. Read Today's Paper Tributes. Rewards. Subscribe.

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Launceston's popular City Park macaque monkeys could be left to die out, as a motion to restrict their breeding goes before the council. The macaques have been a feature of the northern Tasmanian ...

Launceston's City Park will be monkey-free in about 25 years' time. City councillors have voted to sterilise the males in its captive macaque troop, which has called an enclosure in City Park home ...

But by 2050, it is expected there will be no more monkeys left in the park. The City of Launceston has decided to desex the male members of the macaque troop to prevent the animals from breeding.