Monkey Jungle
A wildlife park where the monkeys roam free and the humans walk through caged tunnels. The tagline is 'Where Humans Are Caged and Monkeys Run Wild.' They mean it.
Joseph DuMond released six Java monkeys into the South Florida jungle in 1933 to study their behavior in a natural environment. The monkeys stayed. Their descendants are still there. The park that grew up around them is one of the oldest wildlife attractions in Florida, and the only one where the animals have the run of the place and the visitors are in cages.
Monkey Jungle is at 14805 SW 216th St in Palmetto Bay, open daily. Admission is $30 for adults. The caged walkways run through the jungle canopy — monkeys swing overhead, sit on the cage roof, and occasionally reach through the bars. The swimming pool show, where monkeys dive for fruit, runs several times daily.
The park has about 400 primates across 30 species. The original Java monkeys' descendants are still the dominant group. The experience of walking through a cage while free animals move around you is genuinely disorienting in a way that most wildlife experiences are not.