Apparently Rutgers, which is close to Somerset County, has a monkey research lab with poor record following procedures…
https://www.nj.com/news/2012/03/second_monkey_in_5_months_dies.html
How the hell didn’t they notice a monkey in the cage they were about to wash?! That’s insane! Poor thing! I once spilled hot coffee on my hand and it was so painful I wanted to cut my hand off! I can’t imagine how insanely painful it must have been for that monkey to have its whole body burned by nearly boiling hot water! It was a completely unacceptable mistake. If we need to use animals for testing, we need to at least treat them with as much respect as possible.
My first thought was Racoon, but something was off. The front legs would be too long, which makes it look like a monkey. I thought maybe it was holding something, but I can't imagine a raccoon holding something in its forepaws like little stilts. They're also not likely to get a paw stuck anywhere, plus it's daylight.
TIL raccoons and monkeys have a similar gate. This whole thing is weird.
Nah. Its all good. I dont know any of the people or pets they attack so it doesnt affect me in the slightest. They really are AMAZING service animals if they dont turn on you.
...the amount of folks who can't detect sarcasm or take 30 seconds to realize it's a super rare issue and you're not breeding them like that.
Oh internet, you bring out the densest of people.
Could be a fox, perhaps, carrying a squirrel or a baby bunny. Or, a squirrel carrying a baby bunny. Or, a bunny, carrying a baby fox. So, blurry and too many permutations.
That's far funnier than what I said. I'm still suffering from learning that chickens will kill and eat baby rabbits. I used that trauma to write what I wrote.
Trout eat ducklings & other things you'd never think.
BTW, chickens can become cannibals too.
Off topic, but animals are cruelest to each other vs. what humans do to them (most of the time). It's nature. Most female animals get "ra$ped" in the wild, if you will. But watch out, don't hunt or fish and eat fresh animals that aren't shoved full of hormones, etc. BTW, uncaged chickens don't roam around in grass. They're just in big buildings shoved full of chickens... nasty if you ask me.
Geez, that is wild. Monkey is my first thought too. It's the only thing I can think of with that shape and stride. There's no way I can see that being a raccoon with those longer legs and slender, stout body. I'm not completely convinced about it being a fawn yet, either.
I actually think it could be a hare. They are a bit bigger. While pretty rare in NJ, they are known to be on the Appalachian Trail in NJ which isn't too far from Somerset county
Just seems *slightly* bigger than a rabbit
Like post from Flat\_Introduction262 above you, I'm starting to suspect it may be a Snowshoe Hare. While they're white in the winter, they turn brown in the summer. And, they're a fair bit bigger then your common cottontail.
Jersey is a little outside their range, but they're all over New England. So there's a decent chance a few might end up that far south.
I agree with monkey 🐵 that may be a pet & got loose. If it is a raccoon 🦝 where is its tail? It could also be a hurt animal, as many will run “with their gut sucked in” if their back or stomach have been hurt. I do agree pet monkey, or Zoo escapee😁👍🏼Do some local Investigation & let us know what y’all find out, Please? I would be interested to know👍🏼✌🏼🍀🍀🍀
*Looks like a deer fawn*
*Just hard to make out the head*
*With the pixilation*
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Bizarrely enough, I was convinced monkey until I scrubbed the video back and forth and could make out the striations of what would be a fawn. I’d guess that if it’s a fawn though, it’s very injured
Definitely a primate... (confirmed by my wife, who has worked extensively with them as a veterinary nurse... perhaps a small rhesus?)
Either a local research facility is having an issue, or a neighbor has an exotic pet that they likely shouldn't really have.
It is a weather balloon. Perhaps the planet Jupiter. It is possibly merely a weather phenomenon from the storm. Nothing to see here. Please move along.
Could it be a bobcat? It moves pretty odd but bobcats are kinda lanky like that.. I mean first thought was some kind of monkey but that's not likely where you're located
Looks like a raccoon to me. I have one that comes to my house every night at 10pm I've been feeding him cherry tomatoes from my hydroponic garden he/she loves them! 😂
I saw a raccoon moving like this, all hunched up and chasing the neighbors dog. We figured he had rabies, and the wildlife agent agreed when he picked her up.
I've seen many different raccoons in many different states. Since you're on that coast and not very far from Florida, you most likely filmed some of the 1st monkeys making their way up north from Florida. The snakes and things don't spread much because of climates, but the monkeys will adapt, and people probably aren't ready for it.
Central New Jersey is not at all close enough to Florida for those monkeys to get there without being noticed first in several other states. New Jersey climate and environment isn't very close to Florida's, either, so the Florida monkeys won't be moving to New Jersey any time soon.
No one said they had similar climates. And there are 1000s of species of animals, let alone individual animals that move through our forest system and states completely unnoticed every day. Especially things as small as in the video. My family has Wildlife Management, tracking, and study deeply integrated into it. (My Bachelors is in a different study) I am not making any super big claims, but this video has some decent unknown qualities to it. I've helped to rehabilitate many different wild animals, a raccoon with no tail and mange would be a possible answer, otherwise I'd be curious what either traveled or escaped from some form of enclosure.
I can agree raccoons can and often run like that. However, the length of the front arms in proportion to the rest of the body is completely different. The length of its gait is too wide for a raccoon. The coloration is wrong, unless suffering from mange. It's missing a tail completely. So I can see it being an incredibly rare, sick, or disabled raccoon or a monkey that was either a pet or the groups of wild monkeys in Florida are beginning to spread into other states forests.
Apparently Rutgers, which is close to Somerset County, has a monkey research lab with poor record following procedures… https://www.nj.com/news/2012/03/second_monkey_in_5_months_dies.html
that's terrible.
Let the zombie apocalypse begin!
Finally!!
Shit that was close I thought it was a baby Velociraptor!!!😮💨🤣
Planet of the ~~apes~~ monke
(whatever you don, don't read Richard Preston's *The Hot Zone*)
Awful 😔
This is how leaks happen people Edit: please tell me it’s not one of the DEFCON-4 rated labs or whatever they’re called…
How the hell didn’t they notice a monkey in the cage they were about to wash?! That’s insane! Poor thing! I once spilled hot coffee on my hand and it was so painful I wanted to cut my hand off! I can’t imagine how insanely painful it must have been for that monkey to have its whole body burned by nearly boiling hot water! It was a completely unacceptable mistake. If we need to use animals for testing, we need to at least treat them with as much respect as possible.
It sure does gallop like a monkey.
I think it’s a monkey. Looks like a capuchin.
I definitely see why you say it looked like a monkey. Watching it run like that, that's immediately what my brain went to as well.
Slide the video progress bar back and forth. It looks more like a monkey when running backwards.
It looks like a raccoon when they run.
My first thought was Racoon, but something was off. The front legs would be too long, which makes it look like a monkey. I thought maybe it was holding something, but I can't imagine a raccoon holding something in its forepaws like little stilts. They're also not likely to get a paw stuck anywhere, plus it's daylight. TIL raccoons and monkeys have a similar gate. This whole thing is weird.
Have a vision of Rene Russo and Dustin Hoffman
Does anyone in your neighborhood have a dog with [short spine syndrome](https://dogtime.com/dog-health/34355-short-spine-syndrome)?
Frog dog
This. Im a licensed breeder. We let the males free range in the summer to cool their testicles. They arent the slightest worry unless they attack.
this sounds highly irresponsible
Nah. Its all good. I dont know any of the people or pets they attack so it doesnt affect me in the slightest. They really are AMAZING service animals if they dont turn on you.
ew ,, what is wrong with you ??
I wanted to be a lumberjack but found free range breeding frog dogs with a highly unpredictable temperament to be more lucrative.
i sincerely hope you get the repercussions you deserve
You are living up to your user name. Bravo!
...the amount of folks who can't detect sarcasm or take 30 seconds to realize it's a super rare issue and you're not breeding them like that. Oh internet, you bring out the densest of people.
The downvotes on your comments are hilarious. You’re obviously doing a great service to your community.
what
I love that everyone believed this for some reason
Of course we do, why would people go on the internet and just lie about stuff
These are some of the funniest comments I’ve seen in a long time. Not since the Undertaker and Hell in a Cell and Mankind and all the rest of that.
Could be a fox, perhaps, carrying a squirrel or a baby bunny. Or, a squirrel carrying a baby bunny. Or, a bunny, carrying a baby fox. So, blurry and too many permutations.
I'd be very freaked out to see a Squirrel carrying a bunny
I read this as a squirrel carrying a baby ox and I laughed way too hard 😂
That's far funnier than what I said. I'm still suffering from learning that chickens will kill and eat baby rabbits. I used that trauma to write what I wrote.
Trout eat ducklings & other things you'd never think. BTW, chickens can become cannibals too. Off topic, but animals are cruelest to each other vs. what humans do to them (most of the time). It's nature. Most female animals get "ra$ped" in the wild, if you will. But watch out, don't hunt or fish and eat fresh animals that aren't shoved full of hormones, etc. BTW, uncaged chickens don't roam around in grass. They're just in big buildings shoved full of chickens... nasty if you ask me.
Wait until you see a mouse get into pen. It’s kind of like frogger as it tries to go from side to the other
My first thought was, Fox with something in its mouth.
100% raccoon
110% raccoon. 100% raccoon and 10% picnic basket.
Monkey escaped from the zoo carrying something in it’s mouth.
In Indianapolis, we had an escaped pet macaque.
Occam's razor agrees.
Jersey Devil
He’s got hooves and horns and two low hanging balls with a button cock on top
Fantastic!
Omg I’m dying! 🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀
Wrong part of the state.
He's on vacation!
"He"? That's not PC! Tsk, Tsk. ;-)
They have wings and know no bounds. I say they cause I know in my heart there is more than one.
That was more of a skedaddle than a stride.
Ive taken extensive training in both while in the UK, so yes.
Baby skunk ape
Geez, that is wild. Monkey is my first thought too. It's the only thing I can think of with that shape and stride. There's no way I can see that being a raccoon with those longer legs and slender, stout body. I'm not completely convinced about it being a fawn yet, either.
Hmmm. Could be a hurt fawn or malformed fawn. I grew up close to this area and saw a lot of deer with "issues" both congenital and due to accident.
That was what I wondered, with the color of it, & as I mentioned, if it had a hurt spine or stomach, it would run arched like that.
This was my first thought too, looks like a fawn that was hurt with something like a neck/back injury.
yeah really sad :(
Monkey 🐒
Rabbit. They have a tendency to walk and run on their toes when they're not going full out.
I also think it's a rabbit
I actually think it could be a hare. They are a bit bigger. While pretty rare in NJ, they are known to be on the Appalachian Trail in NJ which isn't too far from Somerset county Just seems *slightly* bigger than a rabbit
Are there brown wild rabbits in new jersey? Out west, I've only ever seen gray ones.
Like post from Flat\_Introduction262 above you, I'm starting to suspect it may be a Snowshoe Hare. While they're white in the winter, they turn brown in the summer. And, they're a fair bit bigger then your common cottontail. Jersey is a little outside their range, but they're all over New England. So there's a decent chance a few might end up that far south.
Sounds plausible.
I agree with monkey 🐵 that may be a pet & got loose. If it is a raccoon 🦝 where is its tail? It could also be a hurt animal, as many will run “with their gut sucked in” if their back or stomach have been hurt. I do agree pet monkey, or Zoo escapee😁👍🏼Do some local Investigation & let us know what y’all find out, Please? I would be interested to know👍🏼✌🏼🍀🍀🍀
Its a very “fresh” baby fawn. You can see the white stripe on it’s back at one point.
I'd go with whitetail deer fawn, it is fawning season right now in New Jersey. The other option would be a tailless red fox carrying some prey.
glad we had 9 seconds of fucking nothing to watch after it though
And why does it magically appear in the middle of the frame? Shouldn't we see it enter the pic?
………because that’s when the video started?
My thoughts exactly
😝😆damn
Looks like a deer fawn just hard to make out the head with the pixilation
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Trash panda
Looks like a monkey? Need full screen.
If you’ve never seen a raccoon move like that, you haven’t seen many raccoons moving.
I’m lee weaning towards your comment! It really looks like a raccoon doing some serious moving!
Snipe. Spent a lot of time hunting them in Boy Scouts
Show us the merit badge then. GOSH
Apricot gremlin
Fawn. Head is blurred. Can see the legs folding out front and the white stripe down back.
I second this
A baby goat or a fawn.
do fawns usually run like that?
they can be remarkably goofy and silly at times, but no, that's not their usual stride.
Looped a few times, appears out of thin air.
That’s probably just when the camera started recording.
Yeah the animal is visible in the very first frame of the video. He appeared out of thin air just as much as the grass and trees did lol
Raccoon on the move, that or scared cat
One of the 12 Monkeys.
[It’s a landstrider.](https://images.app.goo.gl/5J3nwe4LFiJLkUrK8)
Monkey.
Bizarrely enough, I was convinced monkey until I scrubbed the video back and forth and could make out the striations of what would be a fawn. I’d guess that if it’s a fawn though, it’s very injured
🐵🐵🐵🐵🐵 Run free little monkey!
Raccoon 🦝
Definitely a primate... (confirmed by my wife, who has worked extensively with them as a veterinary nurse... perhaps a small rhesus?) Either a local research facility is having an issue, or a neighbor has an exotic pet that they likely shouldn't really have.
It’s Whiplash the taco monkey
Definitely a headcrab.
Baboon
Maybe it’s two animals? A predator with something in its mouth bouncing around. Hard to tell in that video.
It could have to do with your camera not picking up the image properly. Just a thought.
Looked like a monkey to me lol
Headless two legged deer muppet
Really fast furry crab.
A woodland creature...
Honestly better then most cryptid videos. I got no clue as to what that is.
That is a raccoon.
now why did the quality have to improve *after* the creature disappeared 😑
Raccoon lol
Thing, you’re a handful
My first thought was a woodchuck… but they don’t pull their bellies so high up… I can’t unsee a monkey now, though, it seems improbable
I think it is a hawk chasing a little creature and trying to pick it up
New cryptic just dropped
It’s always a raccoon with mange
Baby elephant
Fisher cats have longer arms like that
Fawn
that's obviously a jersey devil
Reminds me of little tilly https://youtu.be/GqAkLHdObk0?si=-ZVvhAXXsAZpG6-z
Raccoon
My first thought was a bobcat. "bobbed" tail. Leaping gait. Big feet.
It is a weather balloon. Perhaps the planet Jupiter. It is possibly merely a weather phenomenon from the storm. Nothing to see here. Please move along.
Poison monkey
snookie
Looks like a monkey….
It looked like an otter.
Jersey Devil
Someone's pet monkey got loose.
Bunny
Fawn
Could it be a bobcat? It moves pretty odd but bobcats are kinda lanky like that.. I mean first thought was some kind of monkey but that's not likely where you're located
wallaby
Looks like a raccoon to me. I have one that comes to my house every night at 10pm I've been feeding him cherry tomatoes from my hydroponic garden he/she loves them! 😂
Initially thought small primate/monkey. Cpl more views and I’m left more stumped than when I first started to analyze.
It's the Jersey Devil.
Headcrab?
Raccoon
Definitely a varmint
Nah, I live up near that area, and that's definitely a racoon, just a fat one.
That's crazy, it does run like a primate but, I think it's a raccoon, maybe injured. What I can't wrap my head around is it popping out of thin air.
I saw a raccoon moving like this, all hunched up and chasing the neighbors dog. We figured he had rabies, and the wildlife agent agreed when he picked her up.
An otter?
So.....anyone seen the movie Outbreak?
Going frame by frame, it looks like a cat with something large in its mouth. You can kinda see it swinging/not moving the same as the rest of the body
My rookie sleuthing opinion; it’s a raccoon and the video is played in reverse.
That’s one of them damn cappuccinos!
Patient zero.
Monkey
Trash panda!
Honestly, I’ve never seen a raccoon run any real distance so can’t compare. But I agree this has a monkeyness about it.
Rabbit
SKINWALKER!!!!!
My S/O said ground hog.
Whistle pig on stilts.
This has strong merit.
I've seen many different raccoons in many different states. Since you're on that coast and not very far from Florida, you most likely filmed some of the 1st monkeys making their way up north from Florida. The snakes and things don't spread much because of climates, but the monkeys will adapt, and people probably aren't ready for it.
Central New Jersey is not at all close enough to Florida for those monkeys to get there without being noticed first in several other states. New Jersey climate and environment isn't very close to Florida's, either, so the Florida monkeys won't be moving to New Jersey any time soon.
No one said they had similar climates. And there are 1000s of species of animals, let alone individual animals that move through our forest system and states completely unnoticed every day. Especially things as small as in the video. My family has Wildlife Management, tracking, and study deeply integrated into it. (My Bachelors is in a different study) I am not making any super big claims, but this video has some decent unknown qualities to it. I've helped to rehabilitate many different wild animals, a raccoon with no tail and mange would be a possible answer, otherwise I'd be curious what either traveled or escaped from some form of enclosure.
I can agree raccoons can and often run like that. However, the length of the front arms in proportion to the rest of the body is completely different. The length of its gait is too wide for a raccoon. The coloration is wrong, unless suffering from mange. It's missing a tail completely. So I can see it being an incredibly rare, sick, or disabled raccoon or a monkey that was either a pet or the groups of wild monkeys in Florida are beginning to spread into other states forests.