Monkey

Here are some funny pictures of a monkey with chapstick
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I’ve always wanted a capuchin monkey as a pet, but can’t seem to find much info on them in australia. Just wondering if you can have them as a pet and if there’s any special things you need to do before owning one as a pet? Also if you can have them as a pet, in which states? Where do you get them from? how much and is there any other info that I need to know? Hope you can help. Thanks

Before you get one, volunteer at a zoo. You will learn so much about the issues of caging wildlife. They are very difficult to keep in captivity. Zoos have a hard time, so a family will find it very difficult.
They are not suited to life in houses.
They have ugly sexual behavior they can’t be trained out of.
They fling poo. Just because they can.
They hate living in cages. In this case, your whole house will be a cage.
Vet care will be difficult to find.
So will "baby sitters" if you want to go on vacation. Traveling with monkeys is difficult because they carry a lot of the same diseases people do and quarantine can be expensive and tiresome.
They bite hard enough to draw blood and take fingers. Not because they’re angry, but because it’s part of their communication.
They can be loud. Again, part of communication and they can’t be trained out of it.
They are as smart as children and need as much time, attention, activity and stimulation as a preschooler. More even. Zoos spend thousands keeping their monkeys entertained and stimulated.
They live up to 40-60 years. Imagine having a toddler for that long.
Zoos and shelters don’t take pet animals. If (heaven forbid) something happens to you, he will be euthanized because there will be nowhere for him to go.
Please consider carefully. Permits and all the paperwork you need is going to be expensive in itself.

Just have a baby, it’s easier.
Cheers.

i had went outside one day and i seen a black monkey looking thing on top of my car, i was carrying a water bottle and i dropped it when i had saw it…the monkey thing bent its head almost completely around and looked at me. i had ran back inside and told everybody to come outside. i had looked everywhere and could not find it.
i just want to know what it was because there wouldnt be any monkeys anywhere around where i live

That’s big-time freaky.

It is also known as the long haired spider monkey.
Follow these links to learn more
http://www.arkive.org/species/GES/mammals/Ateles_belzebuth/more_info.html
and
http://www.theprimata.com/ateles_belzebuth.html
I hope this helps you!

I am doing a prodject and need to know were these animals lie on the food chain

Well I got a ton of both of them in my backyard… So let me comment on what I see.

They both live in South America. I don’t know how wide thier habitat is, but I live in South America, and thehy live by me…

They live where there is jungle. The jungle has a lot of differnt animals.

I observe both of these species eating a lot of fruits. Which makes me think the primarily herbavors, though the monkeys do have K9’s (meat ripping teeth).

There are plenty of animals that would eat both if they are able to catch them.

Some examples of thier predators would be: The Jaguar, the harpy eagle, the Jaguarundi, Anaconda, Phython, Pingo (large aggressive boar, don’t know the English name for it).

However, I see both of these animals live in groups. They are also very fast and the tucan is a great flyer.

But I am not exactly sure what you are looking for when you say where they lie…

If you were in a country where almost everyone had dark hair, skin and eyes, and you saw a few people with fair skin, red hair and blue eyes, you would probably conclude they were at least of the same ethnicity and possibly related, and you´d very probably be right. The same would apply to a few poodles among a population of German shepherds – they are similar and can be assumed to be related more closely to each other than to the other dogs.

Well, extending this to central Africa, suppose you see humans, gorillas, bonobos and chimpanzees as well as other animals, say, flying squirrels, hippos, tree frogs and colobus monkeys, does it not seem to you to be a fair extension of that assumption that we too have a sort of "family resemblance"? Our lifestyles are pretty different, so it´s not like we´ve been designed for a similar approach, for instance humans hunt more, don´t climb trees, tend to live in savannah and gorillas are almost completely herbivorous, and bonobos and chimpanzees spend a lot of their time up trees. Our sexual and social behaviour is also very different.

I’m sat in the office facing somebody that I reckon to be the missing link.

Some day a little boy about 14 came to my house with his mom and ask for a spider monkey and my mom why? what do they do and he whisperd in her ear and after that my mom siad thats not repectful.

Do you know about GOOGLE? Go on GOOGLE and enter "spider monkey" and you will lean all you want to know about those cute little critters because you will turn up ONE MILLION SEVEN HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND hits (1,750,000) on SPIDER MONKEY… and I got that in just about 10 SECONDS… so surely you aren’t so lazy you can’t do it too.

If human beans evolved from monkeys, then why’s it somfin’s different between them?

Dont they look the same or wot?

First off, it’s human BEINGS!
Second, SOMETHING… and WHAT… learn to spell, bub.
Third, wow. Really?
Fourth, humans look nothing like monkeys, unless you mean that we both have faces, hair, opposible thumbs, and can occassionally walk on two feet as opposed to four.
And lastly, the difference is insurmountable. Humans have similiar DNA to primates, yes, but we also have similar DNA to dolphins… so I guess that doesn’t mean much. And when humans and modern day monkeys and apes evolved from ancient primates it was so long ago that we are all (primates and humans both) drastically different from each other now… basically, we didn’t evolve from monkeys.

I recommend you take an evolution class or an anthropology class. If you can handle it.

It has come to my attention my son might be hiding a monkey in the house.Both myself and my wife are awoken by high pitch screams in the night.When I asked my son what it could be he said he wasn’t hiding a monkey.But nobody had mentioned a monkey to him. I’m scared the monkey will go nuts and kill somebody what should I do as a parent.

You should go up their and check out what it is, a monkey wont go nuts and kill anybody so don’t worry, go up and see if it is in good condition and see if and what he is feeding it, give it some water if it doesn’t have any. Talk to your son about it after you have checked it out . It’s up to you weather or not to keep it but look at it from his point of view, I’m sure he’s very attached to whatever it is because i know how much i loved my pets, including some baby birds that i took from a nest and raised, my mum found out about them and put them outside in the shed in the middle of winter without me knowing. I was heart broken at the time and didn’t talk to her for ages when i came home and found them dead.

I am looking into buying one and i need to know if they are legal and how i can get a permit to have one as a pet.

VA actually does not require you to have permits for monkeys. However, you will need them for Great Apes. You WILL have to check with your county though. Each county has different laws. If you live in a community you will probably not be allowed to own one.

Before you get a monkey PLEASE talk to other monkey owners. I am a Capuchin owner, though I have also worked with Marmosets, Tamarins, squirrel monkeys, spider monkeys, vervets, and several more. ALL monkeys bite! You are not going to be able to train it otherwise. However, a marmoset is not going to hurt nearly as bad as a larger monkey. Do you know about their diet? Or what kind of housing they need? If you have any questions PLEASE feel free to email me and I will help you. I strongly support private ownership of primates, but only for responsible and educated owners. People purchase baby monkeys all the time and after a year or so they give them up because they can no longer handle the biting. Just be certain what kind of committment you are making and PLEASE educate yourself about their care first!

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