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Angela Berkley,
High School Student
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Birds, monkeys, and squirrels shared the green treetops which cast cool shade to ferns and moss on the forest floor.
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Borg Svemann,
Woodworker
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) Squirrel monkeys are lowland creatures who thrive in the tropical forests, where they forage for soft fruits and juicy bugs.
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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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Whereas the other two subspecies of squirrel monkeys are aggressive the mono titi is unique in its ability to cooperate and lead a peaceful existence.
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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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The second-growth forest that squirrel monkeys prefer for the plentiful soft fruits and insects is rapidly disappearing.
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Phuong Nguyen,
Exotic Dancer
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Today there are more than 120 squirrel monkeys living in the Amazonian Rainforest at Monkey Jungle.
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Abu Kashir,
Gas Station Attendant
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The ashram was a sanctuary for animals and Ramana had great fondness for the cows, monkeys, birds, and squirrels that inhabited the grounds.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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Through thousands of hours of painstaking fieldwork, Boinski has assembled data not only on the squirrel monkeys in Costa Rica but also on their near cousins in South America.
Though squirrel monkeys are the second-most common primate used in medical research in the United States (only rhesus macaques outnumber them), they had been poorly studied in the wild.
The squirrel monkeys of Costa Rica bring a special delight for my forest guide, Sue Boinski, a professor of anthropology and comparative medicine at the University of Florida.
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Shane Kelly,
Bar Tender
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The female squirrel monkeys of Costa Rica also emigrate from one troop to another, again unusual among primates; in most species the males transfer.
She observed that Costa Rica’s squirrel monkeys were very different from those in South America, where most of the research animals were captured.
When the zoos and research facilities tried to develop captive breeding programs they found there their squirrel monkeys were not having many babies – except at Monkey Jungle.
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