Colobus Trust

Category: Primate Rescue/Rehabilitation | Date: Nov 14 2007 | By: admin

Things have been busy in our Rehabilitation Cages of late. Over the last two years we have built up a collection of mainly ex-pet Vervet Monkeys & we are aiming to release them as soon as we (& they) are ready.

Having been taken from the wild from a very young age, these poor animals find it quite difficult to be monkeys in the way that wild ones do. Luckily two of our volunteers (Neda & Sal) have taken charge of the monumental task of preparing them for release. This has involved not only finding a release site but also creating a troop that will survive in the wild. The difficulty in this lies in the fact that they have had limited social contact for so long. To ready them for release the girls have been introducing the monkeys to each other & studying their responses. This, so far, has gone well. However, next week is the introduction of the two mature females. Their alliance will prove key to the formation of a stable troop.

Let’s hope it goes well and soon we’ll have our very own troop ready to be reintroduced to the wild, which they left long ago.