Thats not my wife thats a monkey

I Was out at 92 acres we were managing yesterday and the caretaker had found a baby howler monkey. He had it tied up by its neck because he was worried it would get killed if by itself. I was worried the thing would strangle itself. I bought it from him for $50 (he loved that).

After I got it into a box and into my truck I called Cindy and she called Marco Galindo (Julio's brother that owns the Gumbalimba Park). He said if it’s a young monkey and has good manners you can bring it to me and we will take care of it. Then he calls back and says can you bring it tomorrow. We are spraying for some bugs today and I have the park closed.

So now here I am with a monkey not quite on my back but close. So I call Cindy and the "Ellie May" that she is met me at the house all happy for a new pet. I put it into our screened porch, we took out anything we thought it could break and did what anyone would do. Gave it a Banana. That was a hit and I spent the next few hours feeding it, watching it jump around and climb things and roll onto its back to be petted.

Of course We had both read Hotzone which became the movie Outbreak and I was in the back of my mind thinking. Does this thing have Ebola? What if it scratches me or bights me and has Rabies. Never the less it was really tame and docile and I did not pick it up to much or anything like that.

So the night passes and I scooped her up (yea by now we decided it was a girl) and put her in a towel; I could not put her in the box any more since we had shared bananas. We got in the car and true to her nature she climbed as high as she could and sat on the dashboard all the way to Gumbalimba.

I gave her to Marcos who said she was in good shape. He said she was a 4 or 5 month Howler monkey. Those monkeys are not natural to Roatan but Roatan has a few monkeys from pets escaping and breeding etc. Marco's was going to have a vet check her out. He also said he had other howlers and would take care of introducing her etc. Finally Marco says what name does she have. I said call her Cindy.