At Hillberry Farm our residence Capuchin Monkeys Kwango, Kirsty and Gucci have a new home. At the beginning of April they were relocated and now have a new home at the Monkey Sanctuary looe in Cornwall. www.monkeysanctuary.org Grant is very happy that they will have a wonderful new life and secure future.
Capuchin Monkeys come from the rain forests of South America, they are very highly intelligent and are often kept as pets in unsatisfactory conditions.
Their name is derived from the growth pattern of hair on the top of the head which resembles the sharp pointed ‘Capuche” or hood warn by the capuchin order of monks.
Today you need to have a Dangerous Wild Animal License to keep a Capuchin Monkey that involves your local environmental heath to inspect where and how you are going to keep you monkeys. They also appoint a vet to check you are providing all the correct conditions to house your monkeys, including their diet.
Monkeys should always be kept in pairs or in groups and Monkeys DO NOT make good pets, they are WILD animals
Click on one of our monkeys for more information
Gucci came to be in my care from a person whom was unable to give him the correct accommodation, he has been with me since 2000 he was quite small when he came he is now quite big and is very friendly chap.
Gucci lives with two other monkeys in a large enclosure with outdoor access and heated indoor accommodation, with branches and ropes. Gucci favorites fruit are grapes and banana.
Charlie is a male and came from a house were he was been kept in small cage which had been converted from a wardrobe he was 15 months old and with no access to the outdoors and was been kept on his own, (all monkeys should be kept in either pairs are groups)
Charlie has been in my care for 19 years and he has a large outdoor enclosure with lots of branches and ropes. Attached is an indoor heated house.
Kwango is a female and she came form a zoo that had closed down.
She came to be with me in 1991 and we think she is about 29 years old she is very active and loves her grapes.
Kwango also has a large outdoor enclosure with indoor heated house.