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Bigger and badder, Exmoor Zoo welcomes new monkeys

Friday 06 October, 2006

A zoo in north Devon has taken some quite drastic action to prevent thieves from continually stealing from its monkey enclosure.

Exmoor Zoo has been the target of a monkey-napping, when rare marmosets were taken from the zoo's monkey area. However, the zoo is now fighting back with its latest monkey selection.

Black Howler monkeys have been selected to replace the marmosets and they are louder, harder and more vicious than the more placid marmosets.

Greeb and Wings, as the monkeys are known, hail from South America and are two tough primates that thieves will definitely think twice about trying to take.

"They have five limbs, the tails can support their entire body weight, leaving all four limbs free – and even the keepers at the zoo have installed automatic shut offs so there is no danger of staff getting on the wrong side of them," said Steve Eddy at Exmoor Zoo, according to the North Devon Gazette.

Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina are the regular stomping grounds for these monkeys, which have a howl that can be heard three miles away.

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