Le Van Tuan, 60, from Quang Ninh Commune said the red-faced monkey, weighing around 9 kilogrammes, had wandered into a local residential area and repeatedly caused property damage at his home.
The red-faced monkey weighs around 9 kilogrammes (Photo by Trung Duc)
Realising the monkey was a protected wild species, Tuan captured it and handed it over to the authorities via the Quang Ninh Commune police on July 3.
The Quang Ninh police filed a report and transferred the red-faced monkey to forest rangers for care and release into the wild.
The red-faced monkey, scientifically known as Macaca arctoides, is classified as a Group IIB species and listed as endangered in the Red Data Book.
