PI hot on trail of brutal monkey-killer

13 March 2019 - 09:00 By Orrin Singh
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Someone used an extremely dangerous poison called Temik to poison a troop of 22 monkeys in KwaZulu-Natal.
Someone used an extremely dangerous poison called Temik to poison a troop of 22 monkeys in KwaZulu-Natal.
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Who was the person, fed up with troops of monkeys invading his or her home in the posh seaside tourist town of Umdloti, north of Durban, that resorted to an inhumane way of exterminating the problem?

That’s what animal activists and a private detective are determined to find out after it emerged that someone used an extremely dangerous and illegal poison called Temik, also known as “Two Step”, to poison a troop of 22 monkeys at the weekend. 

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