We have good news and bad news...  

Early Monday morning Mimi alerted me to the news of a monkey birth. I rushed to the habitat and there was Michelle, a proud mother with a tiny baby on her back. The bad news is - another wild animal was born behind bars…the good news is - the baby is healthy and mom is taking excellent care of the baby. Below is Newborn Baby Monkey -- Good News and Bad News, a trailer for “The Jungle Friends Baby Monkey Story” coming soon.

If you are new to our Jungle Friends Family, you are probably wondering - what the heck is going on? A monkey born at the sanctuary, well, here’s the short story of how all this baby monkey business began…  

Last October we rescued a group of monkeys from a roadside zoo in Texas. We were told that only two of the males in the group needed vasectomies. The procedure was performed last September while I was in Texas prior to the monkey’s arrival to Jungle Friends. The vas deferens were sent in and confirmed. So we thought all was right with the world, until…several of the females were getting pretty hefty, and they looked pregnant. Last week two of the males in this same group got into a fight, neither were the boys we vasectomized in Texas. One of them had to be seen by the vet, so I asked Dr. Schirmer to check to see if the monkey had been fixed, he had not! Dr. Schirmer performed a vasectomy while he had him in at the clinic. 

The Texas monkeys have been here six months now, so the baby born Monday morning had to be conceived here! Well, you can imagine how worried that has us – we separated all the boys from the girls and we are taking the boys to the vet as soon as possible to find out if we have any other intact males and remedy the situation.

The last thing we want to see are wild animals born behind bars living out their lives in captivity, but it is what it is and we will do the very best for the infants, their mothers and any other monkeys who find their way to Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary.

What we need from you is…HELP, we need to build more habitats, we need more volunteers, we need more money and we need more land. If you, or anyone you know has an extra $250,000, please get it to me right away so we can buy the property behind us! If not, please donate as much as you can.

You see, we have a matching funds program going on right now for our Expansion Project, so whatever you donate, will be doubled! Please donate today! 

More about the Texas Monkeys…

Elizabeth, one of the monkeys in the group, had a two month old baby on her back whom she rejected during the trip to Florida. Learn more about the story at Baby Monkey Rescue.

Fortunately Monkers, a 2 year old monkey, who had been separated from the same group because she had also been rejected by her mother, acted as the baby’s surrogate mother.  

Zumie, who was only 7 months old when she arrived at Jungle Friends, was also cared for by Monkers when she had been harmed in the larger group. Zumie had to have stitches for a nasty gash in her foot prior to her arrival at Jungle Friends. Now these three youngsters live together here at Jungle Friends. This trio can play and play and then play some more! Watch great videos at: Baby Monkeys in Action.