>>1973735>They're good with cold weather, so they'd be able to survive in most of North America, including the interior of Canada where there aren't any other primates to compete with.Wrong. They can only survive up north in Japan because they heat themselves up in the hot springs. Their highest population densities are actually in central or southern Japan where there's a subtropical climate.
A hundred or so Japanese macaques were actually introduced to Texas like fifty years ago and they're doing pretty well today. Their population increased to around six hundred.
As for you OP, the most numerous monkeys in Mexico (according to iNaturalist) are Black-handed spider monkeys and Guatemalan black howlers. They live on the Yucatan peninsula that points at Florida so you could probably introduce them to Florida and make it seem like they rafted there naturally. In Florida there are already rhesus macaques (Asia), squirrel monkeys (south America), and green monkeys (Africa).
Of course this is assuming this isn't all a big larp shitpost, but I was always interested in introduced species that don't really mess up the environment.
