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You Can Have Lunch At This Hidden Primate Sanctuary In North Florida

Whether you have plans or not this summer, you must add monkeying around to your bucket list. One of the largest primate sanctuaries is located in Florida where rehabilitated, retired, and ex-pet monkeys live together.

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Lab Monkeys Get Second Chance at Life, Thanks to Florida Woman

Kari Bagnall’s Gainesville home has grown into a monkey paradise. The property has primates of all sorts, including marmosets, tamarins and capuchins. Kari’s a mom of sorts to hundreds of rescued primates. Over half the monkeys at her Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary were brought in from research labs. They were involved in everything from nicotine and cocaine studies to research on vocal cords and cognitive functions.

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Former Nicotine Research Monkeys Now at Primate Sanctuary

The nicotine addiction study by the FDA started in 2014, but was suspended last year after the agency learned four research monkeys had died.

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Monkeys Join Gainesville Sanctuary After Lives in the Lab

About two dozen squirrel monkeys that have spent their lives in cages as test subjects in nicotine addiction research are now away from the lab and transitioning to the open skies at Gainesville’s Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary.

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Jane Goodall Helps Rescue 26 Squirrel Monkeys From Lab Testing

Earlier this year, primatologist Jane Goodall helped facilitate the rescue of 26 squirrel monkeys from US Food and Drug Administration testing.

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Retired FDA Research Monkeys Find New Home and Music in Florida

The FDA has retired research monkeys for the first time, starting with a group of squirrel monkeys that just arrived at Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary.

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Carli the Capuchin Home After Three-Day Jaunt

Carli, the capuchin monkey who escaped from Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary on October 21st, was spotted the morning of October 24th munching on corn by a hunter checking his deer stand. She was darted by a state wildlife officer and returned to the sanctuary.

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The Story Of The Search For Jungle Friends’ Escaped Capuchin Monkey

No one is sure how Carli escaped, but it took a village to get her back home.

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Going Bananas: Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary Hosts Sixth-Annual Monkey Day

Jungle Friends hosted it’s annual open house event, where sanctuary supporters could meet some of the 300 monkeys living at the sanctuary.

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Animal Sanctuaries: Jungle Friends

On 42 acres of land in Gainesville, Florida, Kari Bagnall has set up a refuge for monkeys. In total, roughly 300 residents rest in her care. Video at the link!

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How Monkeys Stay Cool at Jungle Friends

In the Florida heat, volunteers at Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary have been making sure their roughly 300 monkeys are staying cool this summer.

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72 Dangerous Animals: Latin America

The capuchin monkey is deemed the second most dangerous animal in Latin America, beat only by the jaguar. This includes footage and interviews shot at Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary.

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