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  • From: "alex stevenson" <alexs19 AT hotmail.com>
  • To: monkeywire AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Multiplying Monkeys in L.A.
  • Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 12:24:58


Daily Yomiuri (No. 18358)
Wednesday, September 26, 2001

Endangered monkey born at L.A. Zoo

LOS ANGELES (AP)–A crested capuchin monkey at the Los Angeles Zoo may be the first of the endangered species to be born outside of its native Brazil, zoo officials said Monday.
"It may be a world first. We are pretty confident that it is," said Michael Dee, the zoo's general curator.
The rare monkey was born Aug. 11. Zookeepers delayed announcing the birth in part to make sure the newborn survived its first month.
The monkey is one of only a handful in captivity, including others at the Brookfield Zoo in Illinois, Dee said. An unknown number survive in their native habitat in the rain forests along Brazil's Atlantic seaboard.
The baby monkey's parents were among five capuchins lent to the zoo in January by the Rio Primate Center in Brazil as part of a captive-breeding effort. Zookeepers have not yet determined the unnamed newborn's gender.

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