Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Ken Barnard - 6/6/07

Rare monkey missing from Brazil zoo


SAO PAULO, Brazil


A rare Amazon monkey has gone missing from a Brazilian zoo and could harm biologists' efforts to repopulate the endangered species, zoo officials said Wednesday.


Workers arriving at the zoo Tuesday morning noticed the male pied tamarin was missing, and found a wrench and a coat left behind in its cage.


"We understand why the monkey has run away,” said Luiz Antonio da Silva Pires, director of the city zoo in Bauru, “Zoos in Brazil are shitholes. A Sao Paulo boy hooker wouldn’t be caught dead here. I mean, boy hookers have been found dead here, but, well, you know what I mean.”


"What I can’t understand is why the monkey left his coat and wrench behind. I don’t think he’ll get very far out in the real world without a wrench or coat. What’s he going to wear when it rains? What’s he going to do when he needs a wrench?” da Silva Pires added.


When asked if he thought the coat and wrench could belong to a person who kidnapped the monkey, the zookeeper seemed doubtful.


“I don’t know who would want him. He’s just a deadbeat rare monkey that never paid his rent. He was not as well mannered as the lion over th

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