MONKEY BUSINESS: The Santa Ana Zoo isn’t...
MONKEY BUSINESS: The Santa Ana Zoo isn’t happy to have this monkey off its back. The zoo has decided to say goodby to two very rare primates--red-backed squirrel monkeys--and send them to Phoenix. . . . There, the two monkeys will join a third friend recently captured, so the Phoenix Zoo can start the nation’s first captive-breeding program for the monkeys. Santa Ana Zoo officials say it’s their small way of helping out a species that has almost vanished from the world.
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