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MADERA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A babe spider monkey named Azules is being cared for astatine the Oakland Zoo aft being rescued successful Madera and officials anticipation her communicative tin rise consciousness of the dangers of owning these exotic animals.
Madera California Highway Patrol pulled implicit 27-year-old Mused Adel Mohamed Ali for driving nether the power and transporting marijuana for merchantability past month.
But uncovering a babe spider monkey successful the car, was bananas.
"She has debased calcium levels, precise abnormal skin. You tin archer from her pictures she's mislaid a batch of hair. And done our extended aesculapian workup, really, it's each from malnutrition," VP of Veterinary Services Dr. Alex Herman said.
The Madera County Animal Shelter took Azules successful that nighttime and was transferred to the Oakland Zoo for treatment.
"Despite her precise unsmooth start, she's doing precise well," Herman said.
Herman said she came to them with an precocious respiratory corruption but is doing better.
"Behaviorally, emotionally, mentally, she's doing okay. But she is an isolated spider monkey and their earthy behavior, what they germinate to bash is unrecorded successful a group," Herman said.
Herman says owning spider monkeys is amerciable successful California and they are highly endangered.
"Legal oregon not legal, you know, sidesplitting an animal's household to harvest them for the chaotic and devastated. It's crashing, you know, the chaotic population," Herman said.
Herman said determination is simply a existent surge successful spider monkey trafficking.
"Unfortunately, she is not the archetypal I've ever seen and astir apt won't beryllium the last," Herman said.
But she says Azules is simply a textbook illustration for what happens erstwhile chaotic animals are exposed to mediocre care.
"Hopefully telling her communicative volition amended radical truthful they don't inadvertently enactment this industry," Herman said.
Dr. Herman said she is precise societal and uncovering her a radical that supports her intelligence wellness aft being taken from her household successful the chaotic is the champion option.
