Foster monkey moms can be scary for baby orphan monkeys 

Muito triste. Abusar dos macaquinhos.😮😢

Becasue those countries have no laws, it is allowed to sell monkeys in the markets, which is a SHAME!!!

What a wonderful comment, Koisneurotypical. You speak for many devoted watchers.

hi, yes it helps to come down befor midnihgt.

Only good reviews should come across your feeds.❤the way you treat them all. They are quite entertaining and fill our hearts with love. When you watch the other shows where the monkeys are clothed, you want one for yourself. But after viewing several shows and doing research, my mind has changed. Keep repeating, "Monkeys are NOT PET MATERIAL !" HOWEVER, watching your programs is the best entertainment around. I do love them. Thank you so very much!

I'm sorry but you are incredibly naive... And just perpetuating a huge problem...

I thought 😮it was me thinking that,😊 but it wasn't. The other cutie wanted to get him friend a mama too !! 😊❤ too!!! This is just to Cute

Wow, thank you!

GULLIBLE IS WHAT YOUR NAME SHOULD BE... YOU'RE LETTING YOUR SENSES AND WHAT YOU WANT TO SEE OVERRIDE WHAT IS TRULY GOOD FOR THESE ANIMALS.... YOU DON'T THINK THEY ARE BREEDING THEM SO THEY HAVE MORE AND MORE CUTE LITTLE MONKEYS FOR YOU TO COO OVER??... YOU ARE PERPETUATING A HUGE PROBLEM STOP AND THINK SOMETIMES.

Thanks for watching!

Our pleasure!

Yeah they don't humanize them... They just put them in cages give them names feed them on their schedule... Are you really that gullible?...

He is my favorite

@@kimberlygarrish5250 For me, he's equal first with the remarkable Gimli. They did so well not to lose that little fella - and look at him now! He's huge and seemingly very well adjusted.

@@julieprior3126 OMG...yes little Gimli was so depressed. They did an amazing job with him.

Love your ND logo. We are big, big fans.

@@bonnierudnisky2509 Thanks! I was born in South Bend along with most of my family on both sides. All of us are big fans too.

Do you know how they keep the bandits out of the troops? I was curious.cuz I thought they were released into the forest.

Many thanks!

@@VervetMonkey You are very welcome. I was so touched.

You are so kind

This episode ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QB_DAiJaXPE.html explains how to tell the babies apart.

😂 I thought the same thing!

Hi there sorry to hear you have gone through such a rough time. Yes when you are clean then you can come and help the animals by all means...thank you

You’ve got this. Those opiates are tough but it can be done by working the steps. I’ve seen it over and over again.

System32 - I’m 5 years, 5 months clean after being on prescribed pain medication for 10 years. After the first 30 days, it gets easier. You got this! Life is amazing when you don’t have that ball & chain attached anymore. be kind with yourself. One day at a time!♥️

​@@BBB-rd2qi ​ @Amy D ​ @Josie Humble Thank you for the kind words, I Was not expecting such a response and expecting trolls to tell me how pathetic I am or whatever, Its a horrible thing being dependent on Opioids, Congratulations to you ​ @B• B•B on being clean I cannot wait to start treatment and join you on the mission. :D

So nice of you

Bonnie, you’re an angel ❤ Which names are yours? So sweet 😊

@@Bethsabee_Sheba_Newrose Edson and Eamon.

vimeo.com/ondemand/vervetforest

people pay to name them

your observations are wrong, and as annoying as it is, it makes a big diffrence to the baby

The head of the team is Josie she has been gifted with a six sense and has a strong connection with animals, then would be the animal manager, baby mom and section leader who will discuss and decide where they would fit in the best - taking in alot of factors, sex amount of monkeys, male to female ration, troop personality

Thanks for that information. It’s very interesting what you do and how you do it. It’s nice that you have such skilled workers. They are amazing!

There are feeding cages attached to the enclosure fences for milk which the babies need for several months. All the monkeys get solid food thrown over the fences to supplement their forage. In the wild they would move on once they’d depleted the food from their current location.

I recommend that you watch this video on their website ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-o5uRC9og2e8.html. It is all about the foster mom program. Very informative.

They get training to go to the feeding cage before they go out . In the troop

All the males are vasectomised. Very occasionally a pregnancy does happen as mentioned in this video.

@ June Sanabria. The Vervet Monkey Foundation is licensed by the South African Government as a non-breeding sanctuary keeping no more than 600 monkeys. Left to themselves 600 monkeys would soon be 1000 monkeys so every little male monkey fostered into the troops is hauled in again for a vasectomy at the age of around two and a half years. Not castration because the males need their hormones intact so they continue to behave like males in the troop social environment. Though I don't know (being only a keen viewer) I suppose that a vasectomy for males is less invasive than any sterilization procedure for females. As I understand it from older videos, there have been very rare pregnancies among the enclosed troop females. Inventive outside male Bandits and troop females sometimes succeed in mating through the fence or a desperate troop female will climb over the electrified fence to meet a Bandit boyfriend. Dave and his management team dream of one day making a Vervet Forest a reality. Several thousand acres of natural forest where they could release troop units into a state of true freedom where they could gradually interbreed with wild fertile males and young males could leave their birth troops to find their way into another troop as they do naturally. All that's needed is a generous benefactor with a few million dollars to spare for land purchase and infrastructure. I think that Dave would be the first to say that managing a number of captive troops as non-breeding entities is not ideal. But the VMF gives the troop members as close to a natural life as possible with the HUGE benefit of a constant supply of childless potential foster mothers eager to adopt the orphan babies that come to the Foundation. There would be a lot fewer orphans if the Vervet People didn't come into collision with the Human People with their roads, cars, powerlines, dogs and firearms. Without the VMF orphans would either die or endure a miserable and short existence as "pets". I really hope that I have given correct information because as I said, I'm only an interested viewer.

I recommend watching this video on their website ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-o5uRC9og2e8.html It explains the foster mom program and is very informative.

@@peterhoward7530 Excellent explanation of the VMF in a nut shell, I am also a faithful follower of all their videos and newsletters, not to mention a financial supporter, and I say you are very correct with everything you've said in you're comment! 👍

Many different reasons and variables happen every "baby" season in order for so many orphans to end up here at this Foundation. Their original mom is usually killed either in some highway/road accident or killed by dogs/hunters/farmers, etc... or the baby is found all alone somewhere whether it was "abandoned" by it's mother for whatever reason or just simply left behind by it's mother & natal troop because they were scared out of the area suddenly by whatever it was that made them all move so quickly that a baby ended up being left behind. And then, of course...are also the many babies that were literally poached and stolen from their mother and natal troop as newborn infants by despicable POS humans that very selfishly (and very ignorantly) wanted one for a "pet" for only just a little while.... but *ONLY* for as long as they still remain tiny little "adorably cuuute & fun" newborn infants... and then once they eventually grow up a bit and aren't so very easily managed and controlled any longer, they suddenly decide that having a larger much more messy and more independent baby monkey for a "pet" ... isn't as easy or as much "fun" any more so they then decide to take it to one of these refuge centers to drop it off/dump it and then claim they "found" it all alone/by it's dead mother's body somewhere (even though it's very obvious to anyone that a particular baby monkey kept as a "pet" like this *HAS* already been around humans for quite some time in order for it to already be well use to them because it is *NOT* shrieking it's tiny little head off when a human comes anywhere near it and it wants to be held/petted/cuddled quite a lot rìght away and it is obviously also already well use to drinking from a bottle for quite some time, too...which a newly "found" wild baby primate would *NEVER* be able to do right away as soon as it was "found" by anyone until it had time to actually learn *HOW* to properly suckle from a bottle).

@@r.sanders8448 ohhh poor babies😥 thank you for your complete explanation about that problem. Thank you for helping them. 🙏💚

yes soya based

in this case it was done to calm both of them down - in a troop its not only the mom that does it but also the females around the mom to show good intention

This group knows exactly what they are doing. Watch some of the older videos they are very informative.

I lip-smacked as in this particular instance Cosimo had suffered extreme trauma and wouldn't stop pacing and was v stressed, the mums couldn't get close enough to calm him. By the additional reassurance he had his first hug by his foster mum and was much calmer. But yes usually the monkey mums do. Cosimo is a special case.

Thank you for your responses that all makes sense.

Cars, roads, powerlines, farm dogs, humans with guns.

as they all born at the same time of year it would actually be odder if we had different ages

@@VervetMonkey Where are their real mothers? Why aren't they with them?

some where shot, some died in motor vehicle accidents, some where eaten as food - now they need to get foster moms and as foster moms cant feed them as they dont produce milk we need to ensure they able to then we can give them to foster monkey moms, if you just watched the videos a bit you might actually understand whats going on

@@VervetMonkey I watched the entire video, but it never said what happened to their moms. So all these babies born about the same time just happened to all lose their mothers at about the same time as well? Don't sound right to me.

Yes the born from October to December maybe January, this is holiday season in South Africa which results in more cars on the roads mothers are slower when caring babies and motorists dont care enough to slow down, people also hunt and its cheap to shoot monkeys but hard to shoot babies, the channel has lots of info and each rescue shows the person or us getting it from a person