Me too!! The first hugs are the very best 💕 the babies just melt into their new Mommas! Brings tears to my eyes every time! I’ve been watching these videos for a couple years now and still am amazed at how selfless and caring they are for these lil guys, and also amazed at the hate the community has for these animals just trying to survive.
It's so nice that you give these babies their new mommies to love and raise them ..you love them and teach them all they need to survive..and you give these mommas what they desperately want ...a baby that they can no longer have on their own..you fulfill the needs and deep desires of both babies and mommas...you all are such a blessing.
thank you to all of your dedicated hard working and devoted staff. The work you do shows not only your love of animals but the way you treat all of them, with respect and dignity, proves they're not vermin like many in your country seem to think. thank you thank you thanks to all of you.
Awww I feel so bad for the girl crying. I know we all don’t want these babies to get too attached to us humans but it’s only natural to form a bond because they are babies regardless. Poor girl. I bet she was a great temporary mommy.
@Sue Uustalu I agree. I am planning on going. It’s hard for me right now because of several reasons. But I am going to try my absolute best to go toward the end of this year. Hopefully covid is gone by then. I would like to stay for a few months or so. So I have to save up for it. But right now I am helping by sending things they need. I also have the website link included in my work email signatures to spread the word and get people to check it out hopefully
I love the adoption stage. It is like the foster mums all went on a ‘preparing for foster care’ course. Love they are so accepting ❤️❤️Happy New Year with new starts for all x x
Oh this is so wonderful to see Punim and Bru reach that calmness with their foster mom!!! Punim and Bru needed those calming, loving hugs SO bad and mom was ever so patient with them and when that big full of love hug came you actually saw the stress go right out of the babies!!! I'm still wiping tears away after watching this video!! Tears of joy and happiness!! Thank You again Dave, Josie and everyone who make the lives of not only these babies but the foster moms and troops better and successful!!! 💖💜💙🐒🐒🐒🐒🐒💓💓💓
I thought I couldn't possibly love any of these monkeys more than the babies. Then I started watching the babies find new mums. Those mums are so precious. They're like oh thank you! You brought me new babies to love. So sweet!
The hardships that you all are enduring over this long period of time of covid truly does bring me to tears! I wish you all a very Happy New Year, and I hope we can put this covid behind us ALL! 💗
Dear Dave! Your concept is wonderful - they understand what the little monkeys need! Also when they are ready for the moment to find their foster mother. I can't watch enough of all the videos about the rescued baby monkeys. Your wonderful work with the animals gives me hope and brings me great joy! THANKS a lot!
I am so impressed by the fact that you had no game book. You guys and the Foundation had to work through developing all the parameters that you now use to get the babies to the point they can be adopted, and as to how you introduce them to the foster moms, and let them go out in the troop. I cannot even imagine the time, effort, energy, and record keeping that went into making what you do successful. Thank you again for the closed captioning. I would probably not understand or hear about half of the audio. With the CC I rarely miss a word. Thank you for all that you do to help these dear creatures. I love on this episode when the helicopter comes over that all the little ones run to hug up with the baby sitter humans to seek security.
And thank you for your dedication. Posting another episode on New Year's Eve is real devotion to your task. Happy New Year from Virginia, United States.
As always, I love what you all do for these orphaned babies, thank you so much! I hope so much that this new strand of covid-19 does not set off another round of flight restrictions for South Africa!! When will it all END!?! 😠😢
i know this sounds like an asshole excuse, but if these quarantine laws & cotravel bans were not in effect, I 99% would come over to help, I have been totally kicking it around for a year & some change. I soooooo need a change of scenery, I'm a gypsy at heart, so I'm always "nomad express"-ing it. I've always thought about coming to see you guys, staying to help out & work. I love the monkeys & very much respect & appreciate what you have done here. After my own heart, I saw myself doing something similar, when I was a kid.(I always was that one kid that took every hurt thing in, got mad unwanted pets dumped on me, only to fall in love & heal their wee injuries & hearts up, then I'd watch them fly on, always with happy tears in my eyes!) So heres to a happy new year to all of you & all of urs, heres to everything getting back to (semi) normal, If so- I will be on the next flight! No bs! Fingers crossed!
Make sure to contact them formally to see if you need any special clearance papers or even need to do any education courses before you could be of full use to their team. Hope you get a chance at having your dream job post-covid!
@@Sanakudou Already on it -good lookin' out though, thanx. It is a helluva lota of prep for a very, very long flight/journey, it would be such an experience. I have a friend that lives in Johannesburg, so that would help me out to have someone on the other end. :) The way this covid scariness is going though, I'm wondering when it would be sensible to travel again. Because here in the states (I'm in Phila, everywhere around my tri-state area, its basically shut down & everyone is stuck at home still) (Unless you're the obliviously deranged ppl that are still going about ur everyday usual business. Not social distancing, not wearing masks, etc. They are putting themselves & everyone around them in danger & they havent a clue, and couldnt give AF!!! These r scary times we're livn in, w/ some insanely idiotic, morally inept moronic ppl. Stay safe out there, take care. xo
I really like this mom, Reggae. She has really warm eyes & very pretty, BUT more than all that, she’s smart & sweet w/the babies! It always amazes me that the moms know just what to do & exactly how to play it cool in these intro’s!! They end up building bonds so quickly, usually in the first meeting or first day, quite impressive work! 💗💗thank you so much!!!
Love these videos with the foster moms. It is so heartwarming to see the babies get accepted after all they have gone through. If I was there and knew the babies I cared for were leaving I would be bawling my eyes out too. You can't help getting attached to them. You all do a great job. Wishing everyone a Healthy, Happy New Year.
it's a pity we don't have you guys here in south east asia, theres millions of macaques in the city and im sure theres plenty of orphans. it's a dream of mine to start my own primate sanctuary! hope my donation this month helps!
You have to give these Moms credit on how fantastic they are with the babies. I wish people could be this excepting of other races. We need to all love like this.❤️❤️❤️
Thank you so much for sharing these videos. I am a new subscriber. The babies are so adorable and cute to watch. I wish all of you a very Happy New Year.
Anyone here ever read the book “how monkeys see the world” by Cheney and Seyfarth? It’s a book mainly about Vervet monkeys characteristics and so on. It’s very interesting so far.
i have been going back wards and forwards to find out what eventually happened to cupcake and what mom she got......... but there isnt one?? so sad I like her alot dunno why
Reggae has the patience of a saint, look at her! Wee Lovey is a gentle good soul, I love her. Wheres Floki the protector been freeloadin' these days? (im jk, Floki is my spirit animal!) Love him to pieces! HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL! XO
Thank you for all your work and dedication. It's amazing and impressive. A question: why these foster mums can't have their own babies? A new year without covid to you.
The male vervets all get vasectomies; it has something to do with government regulations and permits for the foundation to operate legally. I imagine it would also help a lot with population control on limited land with limited resources, as well as making the rescued babies more desirable and necessary for having dynamic and healthy troops.
Dave points out that this is a sanctuary, not a breeding facility. There is a whole episode devoted to vasectomies, if you're interested. Check it out at : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-n15YPrElCvg.html
@@marazucchi2848 You're welcome. As a disabled person trying to avoid covid, I have spent a great deal of time watching these episodes. They have been really uplifting in such a difficult time. Stay well.
The last 2 episodes only follow 1 set of babies: last week was Toni and the traumatized new baby, and this week Punim and Bru in the intro cage... why haven't you done updates of everybody else in these 2? You usually check in on all the babies each episode. Honestly, I'm dying to see Floki lol He's my favorite this season. But I'm also really missing all the other babies too and anxious to see what's going on with them, and to see how Toni is doing. Can you give us more updates next episode please? Thank you for all you do! 💙💙💙
This maybe an interesting time having to progress the ones that can hit the needed milestones early, such as knowing to come for milk, to see what happens if they are released to mother a bit sooner than they normally might be willing to leave a mother to be off on their own to get milk. I will hazard to guess that mothers that have fostered before might actually know the need for the feeding cage and may even bring babies close even if they are not quite ready to be so independent from a mom. It's been the case with macaques at times when we have had to push integration with a troop up a bit that we have even seen mothers with foster infants even gather together around the cage at regular intervals, wait patiently for their baby and when the baby comes out scoop it up and high tail it to the trees while keeping away females that they know like to walk off with a baby from time to time. Orphans do seem to have developed more independence the a baby naturally born, and maybe that is because they were on their own a bit they are not afraid to move away from mom at an earlier age. Of course each baby differs. It will be interesting to see, if you do end up letting them foster at a younger age if that works out well. We did have one foster mom that did not cooperate with a young baby going back for milk and sadly had to relieve her for a time of her foster until the baby was older, just to make sure it was allowed access to milk.
Brew just kind of goes into shock when he get's handles by the moms, doesn't seem to know what to do, he goes completely limp and freezes lol. Punim on the other hand is handling it very well.
I'm not sure if he goes into shock. Some of these babies do go limp when a mom holds them, and everyone zones out when they get groomed. Complete relaxation without the use of addicting drugs.
And I have a question. I have noticed that the mothers often touch the babies, particularly their heads, then smell their hands. Are they memorizing the babies' scents?
This is really interesting! I've been going back to try and understand the entire process. Forgive me if this has been answered ad nauseum but are the adult females sterilized? I'm just curious how they all are available to foster. Thanks! Oh and will they nurse the adopted babies? I realize they use the feeding cage, just something else I was curious about
@@VervetMonkey Thank you! It's incredibly neat and impressive that you all have managed to figure this all out and help them. I'm learning something new with every video and sharing with my daughters as a part of our homeschool routine. This helps them ask questions about conservation, animals and science. So thank you again for posting!
Vervet Monkey Foundation, iask i while ago if you can help or another monkey foundation that can rescue urgent infant monkey that stolen from the mother or ripped of her dead boxy by proachers , those evil so called rescuers put them in tiny cages inthe cold and filth ,they starving they are constanly sqeeking from fear no stuffed toy to hoold on like they do with the mom, im very upset and worried for those precious monkeys ( all animals) please will you try to find a way to get them out of there please injesus name!
Unfortunatly we cant - we not from that country, each country has its own rules and regulations, the best way to do something is do it yourself, thats how I started helping the monkeys here.
What a strange thing to ask of this foundation. Like what they're doing isn't enough... They can't save all the primates all over the world. Like they said, take action yourself.
