by Primate Rescue Center | Mar 6, 2023
Mona Former Resident Although Mona guenons are not very common in the U.S., we were asked to accept Mr. Mona after he was declared “surplus” by the zoo community in 1995. He lived to a ripe old age in the company of his longtime companion, Mary, delighting us with his...
by Primate Rescue Center | Mar 6, 2023
Petey Former Resident Petey was a spider monkey who was rescued from a life of horrible neglect in April of 2002, his condition upon arriving here so dire that our veterinarian feared he’d last only days. But this amazing monkey defied the odds, fighting his way out...
by Primate Rescue Center | Mar 6, 2023
Hazel Resident Rescued: 1998 Hazel is the largest—and as best we can tell the oldest—of the PRC chimpanzees. She was most likely caught in the wild, as this was how captive chimpanzees were typically acquired in the 1960s and early ’70s. Her earliest years are a...
by Primate Rescue Center | Mar 6, 2023
Noelle Resident Become My Pal Rescued: 1996 Noelle was born on December 22, 1994, at LEMSIP, the Laboratory for Experimental Medicine and Surgery in Primates. Immediately after birth, Noelle was pulled away from her mother to be raised by human caretakers in a nursery...
by Primate Rescue Center | Mar 6, 2023
Rodney Resident Become My Pal Rescued: 1996 Rodney was born on November 25, 1994, at the Laboratory for Experimental Medicine and Surgery in Primates (LEMSIP), a biomedical research laboratory in New York that has since been closed. In the laboratory, Rodney was...
