strange animal spotted

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Originally Posted by witchboat

This past weekend I saw an animal in a tree that looked like a monkey. It was dark brown, had long arms with elbows, and a long wide tail. It looked like a monkey, or sloth, and was about 50ft up a tree eating fresh shoots.
Anyone know what this may be?

There are about 1000 monkeys whose population has grown having escaped into the wild in Florida.

That your critter was eating fresh shoots is curious, as being "herbivorous" strongly limits the number of creatures it could have been.