"We're looking for a baby ... monkeys may attack their human family members. Once owners realize they can't handle the animals, they look to place them in other homes. Zoos don't take former pets.

Plus, researchers could hear adult howler monkeys calling back and forth with the infants, who would sometimes try to crawl away. Camera footage showed one occasion when an adult howler came and tried ...

The agency is against keeping monkeys as pets, for numerous reasons. "While baby monkeys are usually as easy to keep clean as a human infant (by diapering), monkeys that have reached puberty ...