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The meeting place was a gas station somewhere in Washington County. The female caller said he had to come alone, without the cops, if he wanted his monkeys back.
A bit after 9:30 a.m. yesterday, a woman accompanied by a teenaged boy pulled in, handed two guenon monkeys to the man and then sped away.
"At that point I was just happy to get them back," said Grant L. Kemmerer III, owner of Wild World of Animals in Eighty-Four, who didn't see the car's license plate.
He'd be even happier if Pennsylvania State Police officers who are investigating the case catch the thieves.
An anonymous woman had called Mr. Kemmerer around 8:30 a.m. yesterday to say she had one of his monkeys and was trying to locate the second one.
"Apparently, one of my monkeys had already been sold to someone," Mr. Kemmerer said. "But when she called back about an hour later she said she wanted to return both monkeys and we set up a meeting place."
Mr. Kemmerer had discovered the monkey thefts at about 2:30 a.m. Monday when he returned from an out-of-town trip. When he went to check on an open door in his greenhouse, he saw that three animal cages had been smashed and destroyed. Two female monkeys -- a 7-pound mona guenon named Lucy and a 12-pound spot-nosed guenon named Gwendolyn -- were gone. A male spot-nosed guenon named Kenya was loose in the greenhouse.
"Kenya is kind of a tough guy. I guess he wouldn't let them take him," Mr. Kemmerer said.
The telephone rang continually yesterday, with callers expressing concerns and tips, including a man who said someone had tried to sell him a rare monkey.
Piecing together information from callers, including the woman who ultimately returned the monkeys, Mr. Kemmerer said, "Apparently, some teenagers heard there was marijuana growing in our greenhouse so they broke in."
There was no marijuana. There were, however, tropical and semi-tropical fruits that are dietary staples for the exotic animals he uses in educational programs at schools, scout troops, fairs and festivals. The monkeys were in the heated greenhouse because they are natives of sub-Sahara Africa.
"One of the stolen monkeys spent the night in a cold shed, which is troubling," Mr. Kemmerer said.
Wild World of Animals owns about 80 animals "and they're like our children," Mr. Kemmerer said. "They are completely dependent on us for care, and we felt like we let them down when two were stolen. My wife was crying, and I was just sick about it."
Though Lucy and Gwendolyn are handled frequently by their owners, "they are not pets."
"They are wild animals," Mr. Kemmerer said. "This was a dangerous situation. The people who stole them could have been bitten. The monkeys could have been injured.
"We're watching Lucy and Gwendolyn closely because we don't know what, if anything, they might have been given to eat. They might have been fed things that aren't good for them."
The early morning monkey theft garnered widespread media attention, and Mr. Kemmerer believes that helped bring the monkeys home.
There are multiple species of guenon monkeys, and some of them are classified as "critically endangered" in their native habitat.
All are increasingly threatened by humans who hunt and kill them for the "illegal bushmeat trade," food obtained through the hunting of wild animal species.
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