Baby monkey finally caught after two days at large in English countryside

As monkeys go, he was more shy than cheeky.

Staring down from a lonely tree top, this tiny rhesus macaque monkey must have felt a very long way from home.

The seven inch baby, native to the jungles of India and China, spent two days all alone in the wilds of a Dorset village, where he was attacked by magpies and crows.



But finally, looking tired and a little emotional, he was coaxed down from the branches when a friendly human offered him a banana and a helping hand.

Now as the little monkey - nicknamed Hobo - recovers from his ordeal, animal experts are baffled by how he ended up in the trees of Beaminster.



Aged about six-months-old, the animal is unlikely to have escaped from a zoo without being reported missing. And last night there was speculation he may be an abandoned pet - or even have escaped from an animal testing laboratory.

Wherever he came from, experts agree that his age and size mean he may not have survived much longer had he not been rescued by Marty Wright who spotted the animal in his garden.