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BROOKFIELD, Ill. — Brookfield Zoo is welcoming some new friends.

The Brookfield Zoo team is welcoming a baby squirrel monkey and a cotton-top tamarin to their South America Habitat.

The baby squirrel will spend between five to ten weeks on its mother's back before it takes off on its own.

One of the smallest monkeys, measuring up to ten inches in length not including the tail and weighing about one pound, the baby tamarin is slightly bigger than a squirrel.

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© Provided by DC News Now Testing lab holds monkeys after DOJ smuggling scheme investigation

FREDERICK, Md. (DC News Now) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service denied clearance for monkeys from a Cambodian supplier that were shipped to the U.S. For medical research. This sparked a smuggling scheme investigation by the Department of Justice.

The monkeys now remain at Charles River, a lab in Frederick that supplies primates for testing purposes.

On February 17th, Charles River received a grand jury subpoena from the Department of Justice relating to an investigation into the Cambodian non-human primates supply chain.

PETA protestors brought awareness to the issue in a silent protest at Dulles International Airport.

"The experimentation industry is really a part of the global wildlife trade in endangered species and this industry is remarkably greedy, and it is unspeakably cruel. It's deadly, it's violent," said Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel, scientific advisor for primate experimentation for PETA.

Charles River said it will keep the monkeys it currently has.

Charles River has voluntarily suspended planned, future shipments of Cambodian non-human primates until we and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service can develop and implement new procedures to reinforce confidence that the non-human primates we import from Cambodia are purpose-bred. While these discussions with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are ongoing, we have also agreed to continue to care for the Cambodia-sourced non-human primates from these shipments, in the United States.

Statement from Charles River

A spokesperson for Charles River says the U.S. Food and Drug Administration requires testing in two animal species for drug analysis such as the development of every Covid-19 vaccine.

With the FDA Modernization Act 2.0 — which authorizes the use of certain alternatives to animal testing — being passed, PETA says something needs to change.

"This is a critical pivot point where the industry can continue relying on non-human endangered primates that don't give us the answers or move to these non-animal alternatives. This industry is capable of this," said Dr. Jones-Engel.

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