Residents of two tiny two islands in the Caribbean are fed up with an exploding population of Vervet Monkeys that ravages agriculture,  and one solution being floated is to round them up and eat them.

The 50,000 residents of St. Kitts and Nevis, a tiny two-island federation about 215 miles east of Puerto Rico, have co-existed with the two-foot-tall, 12-pound primates for hundreds of years, since slave ships brought them from West Africa. But with the population of vervets soaring, the critters’ ravenous appetite for fruit, flowers, eggs or anything else they can find, has islanders fighting back.

“Crop losses are tremendous. We have some farmers who lose everything,” Randy Elliott, agricultural supervisor in Nevis, told The Associated Press.

The monkeys have become bolder, mounting their raids from the forests with increasing regularity. And, Elliott says, they’re getting stronger.

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