The Nation - News from March 2, 1989

Thirty monkeys crammed into crude wooden crates were found on the Tarmac at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, stranded in the cold by a suspected dealer in the black market pet trade, officials said. Eight of the monkeys were dead by the time they were discovered near a gate used by a Costa Rican airlines, where they were left late Tuesday night, said a spokesman for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. “There were 30 monkeys left . . . in freezing cold conditions. They were in the most inhumane crates imaginable,” spokesman Jeffrey Hon said.