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  • From: "Adam Thorsell" <athorsell AT meditech.com>
  • To: "monkeywire AT lists.ibiblio.org" <monkeywire AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [monkeywire] Baby Monkey Stolen From Primate Expert's Florida Home
  • Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 12:22:02 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)

http://www.wftv.com/news/4647095/detail.html

Baby Monkey Stolen From Primate Expert's Florida Home

MIAMI -- Three masked men in capes stole a baby owl monkey Thursday from the
home of a primate expert, police said.

Dr. Sian Evans, director of the DuMond Conservancy for Primates and Tropical
Forests at the Monkey Jungle zoological park in Miami, was raising
10-month-old Tulip at her Miami-Dade County home.

Male owl monkeys typically care for their young, but Tulip's father died
before her birth and her mother rejected her, Evans said.

Evans awoke around 4:30 a.m. Thursday and bumped into someone pointing a gun
at her in the hallway, police said.

Three men wearing white ski masks and black capes followed her into her
bedroom, demanding money.

The men then forced her husband, Robert Cooper, to free Tulip from a cage in
the living room.

"They made me let her go. She ran onto my arm and back. Then they grabbed her
with a towel," Cooper said.

The one-pound monkey is about the size of a grapefruit, Evans said. She said
Tulip tends to be aggressive with people she doesn't know and would probably
try to bite her captors.

Owl monkeys, so named because they sleep by day and play at night, are found
in rain forests throughout Central and South America, Evans said.

(Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material
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  • [monkeywire] Baby Monkey Stolen From Primate Expert's Florida Home, Adam Thorsell, 06/25/2005

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