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www.wildfutures.org to learn more about our work, including our rescue and rehabilitation work at the Monkey Sanctuary, Cornwall.
Sissy-Jo
Sissy-Jo is a female patas monkey. She was rescued by the Monkey Sanctuary in 2008 when the Sanctuary she was living at previously was forced to close due to the 'credit crunch'. Sissy-Jo is very shy of humans.
Sissy-Jo surveys her enclosure (the 'Dell'). Patas monkeys are the fastest monkeys on earth, clocking speeds of up to 55km per hour!
Sissy-Jo came to the Monkey Sanctuary with another elderly patas monkey named Mumby. Sissy-Jo and Mumby had lived together for most of their lives, moving from zoo to zoo and eventually ending up at The Monkey Sanctuary where staff hoped to offer the two elderly ladies a retirement home for the rest of their lives. In April 2009 however, Mumby fell ill and was rushed to the vets where it was found that she had a tumour in her intestinal tract. The descision was taken to have Mumby put to sleep as the operation needed to treat this type of tumour was untried on non-human primates and was very unlikely to work on Mumby.
This has left Sissy-Jo very much alone, and staff at the Monkey Sanctuary are working on different options for her future.
Patas monkeys are the fastest species of primate on earth, clocking speeds of up to 34 mph/55kph in the wild. Sissy-Jo is rather beyond the time she would have been able to run that fast! Her favourite exercise is more gentle, and involves foraging for insects in the lush enclosure and perching up high on the beams, enjoying the views. Sissy-Jo loves to be up high and her enclosure, the 'Dell' gives her ample oppurtunity to enjoy the clear Cornish skies.
Adopting Sissy-Jo will allow us to give her a happy retirement, filled with all the things that she loves to eat and enjoying the Cornish views!
As an Adopter of a monkey at The Monkey Sanctuary you will recieve:
* A personalised Adoption certificate
* A photo of your adopted monkey
* Newsletters from The Monkey Sanctuary three times per year
*Your monkey's story and updates on their lives at the Sanctuary
*A fact sheet about your monkey's species
*A pass for a year's free entry to the Monkey Sanctuary in Cornwall
When paying for an adoption of Sissy-Jo, please enter the name and address of the adopter in the payment section marked 'Delivery Note'...especially if the adoption is a gift for a person other than yourself! This will ensure a swift delivery of your adoption.
Please ensure that you press the UPDATE button when adding your adopter details on the delivery note.
A percentage of the adoption scheme also goes to help Siglo XXI, another rescue centre in Chile working to end the pet trade.
