Adorable Orphaned Baby Vervet Monkeys Peggy & Joli Meet Their New Foster Monkey Moms - Ep. 7

The Vervet Forest Episode 7 - Orphans Peggy and Joli are moved to a Skrow troop intro enclosure where they meet their new foster mom monkeys. Baby Groot struggles to learn the feeding cage.
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[@VervetMonkey]

Thank you Leo, we really appreciate that

[@beccamarieburkettsewingcir8096]

2:02 Impressive how you place a bottle in the wire so the babies receive as little human contact as possible. It seems as close to nursing off their moms as possible. I like your thinking. 3:08 Such a cute temper tantrum.

[@loriweaver9050]

I absolutely love what you guys are doing! Those monkeys are adorable and it’s a shame they can’t be with their mommy, but you all are doing the next best thing. I have been obsessed with monkey lately watching video’s of different ones. I would love to have a monkey but I know that would be wrong on so many levels. And Just because they look like babies they are not babies. They can quickly turn on you when they get older. They aren’t that cute all the time. Keep up the good work! Peace!

[@dreamwalker4631]

Totally in love with the little ones!!! You guys are doing an amazing job!

[@VervetMonkey]

DREAM WALKER We love them too! Thank you!! :)

[@ears9506]

Didn't know vervets had tantrums...really amazing

[@ksealskimmer]

absolutely love these videos...4th time watching

[@lisapinson2518]

Little fella was a little upset but so precious and adorable 🥰🥰🥰

[@reedecker9416]

So tiny for such a temper tantrum. Quite the cutest drama king. I love your videos.

[@1Life2Live007]

Aww he was just being a little brat. So cute.

[@nilsacordero1301]

My heart 💜 ❤️ is filled with the monkeys 🐒 and you’re all my hero’s. I wish I was closer to volunteer. God Bless you all!

[@mizerybiz]

They are smart for not putting anything soft in the cage. Putting something soft in there would add a level of unnatural dependency. The babies would usually have a teet in their mouth constantly while holding on to a living, breathing mom - even while they are sleeping. Its just an uncomfortable adjustment. Anything soft, like a stuffed animal, would no longer be accessible when they transition to life with a foster mom. Sure its fuzzy but it doesn't have a beating heart or provide the warmth a mom does. It would be just another issue for those babies to have to adapt to no longer having. So a little uncomfortable adjustment is just the best thing for them in the long run. They'll get used to it and be fine.

[@lisapinson2518]

Groot you have a little temper baby boy but I still love ya 😊 you are still as precious and adorable as can be.And fan forget all of the other litter precious ones 😊 you all are just as precious and adorable also.❤❤❤ I love watching their little meltdowns.😊😊😊

[@ValentineS97]

the little tantrum he throws 😭😭😭

[@kevinperry2492]

That one baby throwing the fit cracked me up. I musta watched it like 10 times. Love this show man. You're doing good work.

[@diannebronson1063]

These babies are adorable and so sweet.

[@jeaniehorton5964]

Even the mini meltdown was adorable! 🤗😱😳❤❤🙄

[@lorilaunius7263]

Go, Go, Go Peggy & Joli. I'm so Proud of you both. 🐵🐒

[@VervetMonkey]

Lori Launius :)

[@renatezylla1421]

I can not wait to see, which foster mother Peggy will find!

[@NonnasNursery00]

I love this channel, you all do a fantastic job. I wish I was younger I would be there to help in a heartbeat 💗🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

[@jerrieschulz2034]

God bless all the workers and their charges!

[@sharynbushby2581]

I watch these videos non stop for about 2 hours every single. day. I love how you are so tender and loving you all are with them. God bless xx

[@VervetMonkey]

Sharyn Bushby awe thanks Sharyn! You’re the best!

[@sarah.harasboucher5202]

Awe I love Groot and his epic meltdowns lol .....he’s a total pro at fit throwing! I love it!! 🐵 I also love going back and watching old episodes, I love the new episodes with Dave and the other volunteers but I really do miss Kyle and his jokes and playful comments....I hope he is doing well and also hope to see him on KZbin again he is very talented.

[@cw41752]

Do you have "kidnappers" like the other troops of monkeys have ???

[@VervetMonkey]

What do you mean? Please elaborate.

[@cw41752]

I watch other groups of monkeys and they always have a kidnapper ; who snatched a baby and they run off with it. Sometimes they’ll have for several days. I used to think the kidnappers were to help mother during the weaning process; but not sure about that fnymore, mother follows the kidnapper/baby till kidnapper finally let’s baby go and they immediately run to mom!! To nurse!!! The whole thing leaves me bewildered! And leaves baby anxious and starving!!

[@VervetMonkey]

Yes, we do have that sort of thing happen, but it's a little complicated so please allow me to explain. Within our foster mother program, the females that enter the intro enclosures to adopt the babies are generally not the highest ranking females. There may be juveniles from the high ranking family group who enter as baby sitters, but the adoptive mothers are generally mid to low ranked females. Occasionally we get higher ranked females in the enclosure, but the reason we tend to use mid to low ranked females is because allowing high ranked females or the alpha female into an intro enclosure and keeping them there for a prolonged period of time can throw off the entire troop social hierarchy and subsequently cause quite a bit of chaos. When a lower ranked female then enters the troop with her adopted baby sometimes a higher ranking female will suddenly decide that she deserves/wants that baby as her own, so she will then steal or try to take that baby from the lower ranking adoptive mother, but they definitely will put up quite the fight to hang onto their baby and its not just something they let go of and wait around, generally they will keep trying to get the baby back and the baby will sometimes try to get back to its mother, this all depends on the scenario and temperament of the monkeys involved and size of troop etc. Fortunately this is not a big deal in our troops because the babies are not relying on their mothers milk for nutrition. Our babies are drinking their milk from the feeding cage, so it really doesn't matter which female is their mother, there is no real negative outcome and in fact a higher ranking female who steals a baby then bestows her rank upon her baby (if its female) and that baby automatically gets an advance in the troop hierarchy, which is more beneficial for the baby in the end. Now in the wild, this wouldn't necessarily happen all that often with Vervets. Because of the tight nit family groups in their social hierarchy, everyone knows who belongs to whom and there isn't really a need for the higher ranking females to steal a lower ranking baby, because the higher ranking females would most often be the first ones to be impregnated. So they would already have their own babies and not need to steal them from anyone else, now of course outside conditions and stress can cause animals to do strange things and in the case of the videos I assume you're talking about, it's hard to say what's actually happening considering how much negative human interaction is occurring on a daily basis.

[@carolwood4023]

I wish I was there with you guys to help you out but I'm in Georgia don't have no way to get to you I would love to be there to help you with them babies I love them babies time I get up in the morning at time I go to bed I'm watching the babies give them all kissing hugs for me I'm in willacoochee Georgia

[@ksealskimmer]

absolutely love these videos...4th time watching

[@melindafraser6392]

I think if you put something soft inside the feeding cage it would intice and make it easier for the babies to go in to drink the milk

[@luannduffy2218]

So cute ❤

[@morgster53]

Damn! What a brat! They gave in and let him have his way, holding the bottle for him, but even as he was drinking, he was STILL not done pitching his shit fit! Amazing! Proof it's possible to drink and cry at the same time!

[@VervetMonkey]

lol.

[@methatswho62]

morgster53 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😉😉😉😉😉😉

[@bonniemoore3461]

MORGSTER53-- YOU SHARED MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY !! LOL LOL LOL LOL!!!!!!!!!! THE LITTLE BRATTY THINGS , AND THE CARE GIVERS JUST CAVE IN TO THE TANTRUMS. (LOL)!

[@trishtonks8238]

No love , Babies need the touch and closeness when feeding , its part of healthy secure development .

[@pamannis7665]

Y'all are wonderful for all you do for these babies.

[@traipruetnoosakul1495]

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[@cavyherd7471]

I wonder if some babies pitch a fit about going into the feeding cage because they have to split snuggles and nursing? (Harlow demonstrated what a difficult conflict this is for baby monkeys.) I wonder if putting in some sort of snuggly that they could cling onto while they nurse would ease that conflict. (Of course, then you're faced with refilling bottles *and* cleaning snugglies.)

[@VervetMonkey]

cavy herd It’s hard to say exactly why, but my immediately thought is that it’s more about the fact they are being forced to learn an unnatural action. Beyond snuggling the babies are accustomed to hanging onto their moms and suckling or at least holding the teet in their mouth consistently. So their natural instinct is to have milk delivered to them directly whenever they need it even when they’re sleeping. The feeding cage forces them to get up and walk over, climb inside and drink then climb back out and resume whatever they were doing. It’s like if you had to get up in the middle of the night for a drink of water but had to walk outside and stick your head under a tap just to drink, then go back inside. It screws up your whole routine, and causes a certain level of discomfort that would cause anyone to get a little frustrated. As far as the soft toys to snuggle are concerned, we don’t implement anything like that because of how unnatural it is. Beyond the cleaning and rate at which we would go through those things, these babies won’t have access to a doll in the future and giving them one now could cause all sorts of strange dependencies. It’s also important for the babies to feel the warmth of a body, to feel the pulse of blood flow and the movement that comes with life. So in the end it’s just better to allow them to have moments of difficulty, because this is far more natural and informative for their development.

[@nathanrice1796]

Why is there an electric fence?

[@kattypuss902]

Wow what a wee tantrum.😊 lovely to see how each different stage in their inclusion happens.

[@VervetMonkey]

Hahaha they love to fuss. Thanks for watching. I’m glad you’re enjoying their journey!

[@silverlve70]

What a tantrum!! Aww 🐒

[@AmericanWoman1]

Oh geeze, you gave in at the end and fed him the bottle instead of making him drink through the fence.

[@Almita371]

Peggy super cute too

[@VervetMonkey]

Alma MLR Lim Nails 😁

[@elizasilva6893]

São lindos

[@alicenicol6039]

fussy little babies :)

[@trishtonks8238]

What is the reason you are requiring the baby to go in the cage to get milk when it is known that touch and closeness are very important aspect for healthy , secure development of the baby ?

[@hohohopium]

It's been two years since you wrote this. I hope it's occurred to you in those two years that these are MONKEYS, not humans. You're anthropomorphizing. Besides that, once the baby of under one year of age is in the troop and the adoptive mother's bodies don't produce milk, what do you think is going to happen? Do you think that staff members are going to go into the various enclosures, full of monkeys that might attack them, to handfeed the growing babies until they reach the age of one? The adoptive mothers wouldn't let the humans get anywhere near the babies, even if they tried to.

[@marieclairegauthier2217]

Amazing job!! I have a question about the feeding cage. The cage it's for when they have an adoptive mom, so they are in the troop, and they have to drink milk? Is it right?

[@marieclairegauthier2217]

Vervet Monkey Foundation thank you very much

[@marieclairegauthier2217]

Vervet Monkey Foundation sorry I have an other question I'm curious 😊. Do you do the same when they are ex pet? If not how do you do?

[@VervetMonkey]

Marie claire Gauthier well it depends. If the ex pet is less than a year old, then yes they must learn the feeding cage, sometimes in this case it’s not a bottle but rather a bowl of milk. But if the ex pet is over a year old then they don’t need to drink milk so they don’t use the feeding cage and at that point they should be too big to fit inside the cage. Do you have a pet monkey?

[@marieclairegauthier2217]

Vervet Monkey Foundation no no I dont have pet monkey, I'm living in France! It's just because I'm curious to understand how it's "working" the integration. It's very nice that the baby find a new mom, so I was thinking what's happen to adult ex pet. If they are going in a troop too. Thank you very much for you reply😊

[@VervetMonkey]

Marie claire Gauthier ah, yes he adult ex pets go to a troop as well, but it’s a very different integration process. First they go to quarantine, then to an intro enclosure attached to a troop. Then they slowly get to meet the troop by being released out into the main enclosure. But this takes a while because multiple people must monitor the monkey and be sure that they are okay in the troop and let them back into the into enclosure for safety whenever they are overwhelmed.

[@ihatemonkeys540]

Gross