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CT's Beardsley Zoo Welcomes New Spider Monkeys CT's Beardsley Zoo Welcomes New Spider Monkeys
CT's Beardsley Zoo Welcomes New Spider Monkeys A popular Connecticut zoo is having a bananas time after welcoming two new spider monkeys. On Thursday, July 28, Beardsley Zoo, located in Fairfield County, announced the arrival of two female Black-handed spider monkeys, expanding its spider monkey habitat to four monkeys. Bertha, age 30, and 16-year-old Janet traveled from the Montgomery Zoo in Alabama to join the zoo in Bridgeport. The zoo said the new monkeys were successfully introduced to 8-year-old Gilligan and 22-year-old TT, who have both been at the zoo since the spider monkey habitat opened in June of 2019. “These monkeys are p…

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