Young visitors observe the monkeys playing in the primate habitat at the Central Florida Zoo in Sanford, Monday, January 22, 2024.There are eight in the exhibit that include four Mexican spider monkeys who were rescued as infants, a black-handed spider monkey that has lived at the zoo for more than 40 years and a trio of squirrel monkeys. The Central Florida Zoo has 350 animals representing .
“We wish these monkeys were not trafficked in the first place, but to have been found where they were and to have received the care they did is the best possible outcome.”