PIGTAIL MONKEYS
HIGH COMMERCIAL VALUE BIRTH AT AUCKLAND ZOO Because of its commercial value in Eastern countries, special interest attaches to the birth at the Auckland Zoo of a macaque, or pigtail monkey. This is the first macaque that has- been born in Auckland and probably in New Zealand.
In the Malay States a group of macaques are unique in that they are probably the only animals in the world officially listed on the pay roll of a civil service. Attached to tho State forest service, these animals are highly trained and are used to collect seeds, orchids, nuts or anything else indicated to them in trees or otlier places dimcult of access to humans. For these services the monkoys aro credited with nuts to the value of five dollars a month. . Private persons also train the monkeys and hire them out for the collection of nuts and fruit. Well-trained animals bring very liighprices and are a source of considerable income to their owners. Tho young macaque at tho Auckland Zoo is making excellent progress. Its parents were presented to the zoo about a year ago by Mr. Watney Sibun.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23134, 5 September 1938, Page 10
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