Orphan Monkey Teo moves to intro cage, baby monkeys not drinking milk stresses integration staff

[@Laura-xs3te]

Dave, people like you and those in your organization give me hope for humanity. I'm from the U.S. and it feels crazy here lately. You guys give me hope in general.

[@diggerdan4661]

Idk what state your in but it's about to get really crazy!

[@kaseymigliaccio2519]

@@diggerdan4661 I think people have really overreacted quite a bit over the last few years because of all of the media drama AND the various political issues which have caused people to assume the VERY WORSE and to go against each other. I live in the United States as well (Utah) and as of right now, November 2O22 I can say with certainty that we're all still here, we're alive and well.... things are definitely more expensive but we're surviving just fine. You can't always believe the hype. 🙂 But on the other hand, look how adorable these baby monkeys are and how wonderfully amazing the volunteers are!!! 🌎 ✌️ ~ONE LOVE~ 💕🥰

[@valerie362]

Gimli looks amazing! What a wonderful testament to what you all do. I love hearing the love in all of your voices when you explain what's happening to us.

[@Laura-xs3te]

One of my favorites. His story was amazing. Thanks to everyone there he is thriving!!!

[@carolynmcpherson2667]

@@Laura-xs3te I never thought Gimli could be saved, but--thanks to all of you--you've done wonders.

[@TheRealBaxterslideralus]

I am always surprised at how successful your programme is, Dave, you and the rest of the staff are amazing, may God bless you for helping these little souls, take care and keep up the good work

[@VervetMonkey]

Thank you

[@pambaxter2643]

From another “Real Baxter”🤗lol I love y’all too. I have watched every episode that has been produced. These guys are so friggin cute I wish I could do what y’all do. God bless you and the creatures that He put on this Earth.

[@kystfort]

Thank you for explaining how the monkeys are interacting with each other. very learning for me.

[@pegberthold3988]

I wish I could click on "Like" each time I watch a video for a second or third time. I always learn something new about Vervet behavior from the videos. As with all, this video is thoroughly engaging. I enjoyed following different members of the troops and observing their reactions in different situations. Just look at Gimli now!!! What a success story thanks to your indefatigable devotion, 24/7. As we come upon the new year of 2022, I pray that resources will become more fluid and abundant for the foundation. May God bless you all for what you do not just for the monkeys, but for all who watch these videos that are so uplifting. Many thanks to all of you.❤

[@donnachappell3674]

You all do a great job narrating but i love how Dave makes little stories ,really enjoy them and all of you Thank you

[@VervetMonkey]

Our pleasure!

[@Laura-xs3te]

Dave has such a pleasant voice as well. It perfectly matches what a lovely man he is!

[@jimrossi7708]

@@Laura-xs3te , was worried when Kyle left but Dave is doing a great 👍🏼 job , you can tell how much he loves what he does, he took something he wanted to do and has done awesome 😎, Thanks Dave from the USA 🇺🇸 and I try watching as many of the advertisements as possible because I see your commitment for the Vermets !!

[@kwheeler2547]

@Big Nick Digger IV You really should watch even one episode. What they do is very obvious. They have rescued almost 600 monkeys over the years. They get the babies adopted with a foster mom. Then the pair move back out into a troop. They are nothing like the other so and sos. This organization treats these monkeys with care and kindness like they are special guests. There is an episode this year that shows a recap of baby Gimli. Search that one out and watch it. The link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b56rpJiofd6qqK8

[@BBB-rd2qi]

@Big Nick Digger IV - WTF?! You are wrong! You can go there as a Volunteer and work. It’s in South Africa.

[@ms.newyawkeri7559]

Thank you so much for showing us all the babies and how well they are all doing. Loved this episode. Thank you to all of you for your tireless efforts in helping these babies get to where they belong. Take care everyone and God bless you all.

[@deborahkimball-billups6405]

Nice to see Gimli. I remember the poor little boy who first came to vmf......love wins always wat a great day today to see him doing so well 😀 ❤😅

[@jimrossi7708]

“VMF” did just a remarkable job with little Mr Gimli !! 😲 Thank You Ladies and Gentlemen, WHAT A JOB with Gimli and also what a job he did with himself !!! I don’t know how many people have heard of Arroz Marisco from Hong Kong, I was trying to find someone who cared in that area and he seemed like one that did and then as one of his channels he had “VMF” at the top of his list, and just praised “VMF” so that was what sold me !! Thanks again for all you do for these little guys and gals !! Plus sending love from the USA for all and of course “FLOKI” !!!

[@awake2945]

Arroz is just the BEST when it comes to monkeys!!

[@deborahkimball-billups6405]

Thank you josie and Dave

[@deborahkimball-billups6405]

[@justinedoehring1372]

I've been watching your videos for the last couple years and it is truly special what you all do for these monkeys and how the program works. I only wish I could volunteer for an extended period and be apart of it and learn more. Everytime I hear how short staffed you are it breaks my heart and makes me want to jump on a plane and I probably would if I was 15 years younger and had 5 less kids! Maybe in a few years me and my oldest will plan a trip so we can both volunteer for a couple months. It would be an amazing experience for both of us! God Bless ❤️🐒

[@dolorescardenas3853]

Incredible work, your team at VMF are doing an amazing job! Thank you🙏

[@VervetMonkey]

Thank you so much!

[@ComDocH]

So good to see little Gimli thriving after such a hard start.

[@oohlalalaurenn]

Ah Gimli😍🥰🐵

[@renatezylla1421]

I am always fascinated by the variety of different names for the individual monkeys - there is a lot of love and respect for these wonderful animals in the naming

[@renatezylla1421]

I learn a lot about monkey behavior from your nice comments

[@bracketbasher]

Poor Gimli was such a sad ball of despair! look at him now!!! Great work

[@janinehiggins1507]

A truely knowledgeable and proeffional organization.o.e who has the 🐒 welfsre at heart ❤️ A great 👍 👌 charity to watch ⌚️ Thank you from the uk 🇬🇧 🙏

[@fredavanrensburg9000]

Ahh! These babies and there caregivers are absolutely amazing. You must have studied them intensely to have worked out this successful system. Bless you Dave and your dedicated staff. may you grow from success to world recognition

[@paulakaiser7138]

Amazing work you're doing for these beautiful babies. 😍

[@VervetMonkey]

Thank you! 😊

[@honeyowen3163]

Excellent video guys. Love observing the troop. So interesting to watch their behavior.

[@timmied8461]

I love your videos, and thank you for the great work that you do! 🙏 💖

[@VervetMonkey]

Thank you so much!

[@janeharrington1757]

This is my favourite YT channel. Thank you for the wonderful work you do. I enjoy each episode so much! I refer to these episodes as My Monkey Soap Opera. I adore them all - such amazing characters - and it is amazing how much we learn about Monkey Society!

[@VervetMonkey]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@kwheeler2547]

Around 12:22 there is a grooming session going on. The groomer is doing this odd thing with its mouth. Looks like it is sticking its tongue out and smacking lips. What is that about. What does it mean? I have heard the care givers talking about lip smacking and about "the eyebrow" thing. Curious about everything about these fellow members on our planet. Thanks so much for each of you and for all that you do. I sometimes blip through some of the pet videos coming out of Asia, and my heart just hurts for how those babies are being treated and how poorly they are cared for. I keep watching what you feed the monkeys at the foundation. I would gladly exist on the foods they get. I know it cost a lot to feed so many and to feed them well. Again, thank to all of you for the efforts you expend helping these monkeys.

[@peterhoward7530]

I'm just another viewer but I'll jump in and say that what you saw was definitely the lip smacking thing. It's a sign of friendly intentions and submission often seen when a lower ranking monkey wants to groom a higher ranking one. Sort of "Don't hurt me. I'm perfectly harmless." "The eyebrow thing" is a warning that someone should back off and the eyebrower is right onto them. Saw a great example of it in a video just the other day when a whole lot of Bandits were having a noisy altercation through the fence with a whole lot of enclosed monkeys. They were all lowering their bodies into a crouch with their backs flat and staring intently at the opposition while waggling their eyebrows up and down. They sometimes do it to the dogs Rocky and George too when they approach the fence. The monkeys in the noisy but bloodless fight were also standing up tall on their hind legs from time to time to show how big and fierce they were. In a vid from some time ago an alpha male was showing off to his girlfriends by fiercely eyebrowing a volunteer walking by outside the fence. The volunteer told him "Yes. You're very scary!" Easy to gently mock a big male monkey when there's a twelve foot fence between the two of you, lol. The monkey didn't know he was being mocked of course. Hope I have got all that right.

[@monicaquiroga129]

Si organización muestra el inmenso respeto a la naturaleza , sus animales maravillosos que merecen ser cuidados valorados protegidos de nosotros felicitaciones por su valor moral y espiritual al desarrollar tan loable trabajo

[@harassarah9551]

You guys are doing such an amazing job. What a treat it was to see Gimli all happy, healthy but most importantly part of the troop and happy! I hope you guys get more help soon. Thank you for the amazing video!! Love it 😍

[@deborahkimball-billups6405]

Thanks Mark . Your doing great with videos

[@mamasabe1w81]

Gimli says give me Teo, I’ll play with him! So cute!

[@av8tore71]

I remember Panacur a few years ago when Kyle was making videos, she's always been an awesome mom. How old is she?

[@VervetMonkey]

age is a ladies best kept secret

[@tanyatigermarshall7878]

@@VervetMonkey now that was cute!!! Bahaha!

[@av8tore71]

Touche

[@annieb1794]

What will happen if the baby doesn't go back into the feeding cage?

[@deborahkimball-billups6405]

Laura and her sweet voice are greatly missed ...as well as her love and care ❤ for the little ones 💕

[@valerie362]

I do have a quick question, watching Kara reminded me of others that didn't keep their babies. Do the babies ever protest if a higher rank female wants to take them from their mother that adopted them in the integration? Basically, do the babies have any say or do they just have to learn to accept the new higher ranked female?

[@VervetMonkey]

I do think alot depends on the orphan id they feel comfortable somewhere they tend to stay

[@Darrenbrown68]

@@VervetMonkey and if they don’t feel comfortable with the thieving mum I’ve seen them make a break for their foster mum it when they get an opening.!

[@valerie362]

@@Darrenbrown68 rule breakers! I love it! Hah

[@Filhote_deDisgrassa]

i love that the bandits got mad at the tree for falling

[@deborahkimball-billups6405]

Thanks for the update Mark

[@VervetMonkey]

Any time!

[@vickyserr]

Great work ! You are all awesome

[@VervetMonkey]

Thank you so much 😀

[@tanyatigermarshall7878]

Oh wow Gimlie and Luna look amazing!! They have grown our yearnings!!

[@jimrossi7708]

If the Bandits lost some weight the tree 🌲 wouldn’t have broke while they where in it, the nerve of that tree !!

[@peterhoward7530]

Good to catch a glimpse of Mrs Gold. A monkey mom in a million. I heard in another vid recently that she is aged in her late twenties. Is that right? She looks to be in prime condition. One thing about Vervets is that a casual viewer can't really tell their age. They don't get old and grey the way a dog does because they are grey to start with. Also a glimpse of the Bandit Hawk. Often to be seen around the intro enclosures. A couple of times I've seen her sitting right beside the volunteer observers helping with the observations. Is there any reason why she seems so comfortable around people? Has she been brought in at some time in her life for medical intervention or something?

[@julieprior3126]

Very interesting questions. I'd be interested to know the answers too.

[@peterhoward7530]

@@julieprior3126 Hope we get an answer. With Hawk it's probably a matter of different monkeys having different personalities. Some are brave, some are cautious. But all of them are curious.

[@VervetMonkey]

Yes Mrs Gold is well into her twenties, very mature female - Hawk has been around alongtime, bandits get use to the volunteers and soon realise that they wont do them any harms so they take advantage of the situation

[@Darrenbrown68]

Maybe Yelise is lucky enough to have a foster mum who is able to produce her own milk from Yelise’s suckling. I know it doesn’t bode well for your monitoring & record keeping but it should be more natural & beneficial for Yelise if that is the case. I know that every orphan of Mrs Gold’s suckles. I think it’s wonderful when the foster mums allow the babies to suckle whether for nutrition or comfort!

[@pambaxter2643]

Darren, I don’t believe that Mrs. Gold is actually producing any milk for the baby. I think it’s just something she is tolerant of and perhaps that’s why the really young ones who seem to be the “super sucklers” latch on...for a lack of a better word! lol.. to her!

[@Darrenbrown68]

I’m not saying they are or aren’t but what if some or all of these 3 mums are lactating. 3 months is definitely a long enough time for a non-lactating mum to produce milk from the stimulation of the baby’s sucklin. Maybe they are confused b/c mum is feeding them fine. Baby is drinking plenty of milk from mum so they’re wondering what the problem…. is?

[@dustinmccaulley3563]

32:50 fritz is given himself head? How come he is doing that? I thought that was a sign of stress?

[@benjiwon]

24:37 it's half past three as I'm watching this. spooky.

[@erynporter9951]

Just curious if the feeding (milk) cages are near the areas where food is put out? If not then maybe putting the feeding cages with possibly a water station on the outside of the feeding cages for adults - like a water bottle for a hamster/rabbit cage - would help the babies feel more comfortable moving away from the Mom's to go to the feeding cages. Like if the babies see the Mom's getting water from the cages remind them to go inside and drink their milk?!? Just a suggestion, hope it could help. 🤷 Good Luck, you do such a great service for these beautiful monkeys!

[@VervetMonkey]

Thank you - monkey life and the heirarchy are very complicated, if you have other monkeys constantly at the feeding cage drinking water the baby will never get a chance to go in, so its close enough to where water and food is but not right on top

[@peterhoward7530]

Maybe I will get another question answered which hasn't much to do with the current vid about Teo. I watched a vid from a little while ago about Vasectomy Day for half a dozen two and a half year old males. This was in Kyles time and he filmed the very interesting procedure with horrified fascination. It was interesting to see how effective the crush cage is in immobilizing a monkey for the sedation shot and the monkeys don't seem to be unduly upset by it. But how do you capture the candidates? After all, they don't come when they are called. If I was trying to figure it out I guess I'd put a crush cage with the door open near the feeding area with some especially delectable foodstuff inside. Then I suppose the alpha males would have first pick of the food. But what then? Does any male take precedence over the females or do the high ranking females and their progeny outrank any young male when it comes to feeding? Whatever, I foresee a lot of patient waiting by a volunteer holding the trapdoor rope until the right monkey is inside the cage. And a lot of the especially nice food consumed by the wrong monkeys. Obviously, Dave and the staff figured it all out long ago and I'd be interested to read the exact details.

[@VervetMonkey]

you are quiet correct alot of man hours and time, we use the introcage first put food down and wait hopefully he comes in with some others and we slowly let each one out until only he is left, then we start with the trap cage

[@peterhoward7530]

@@VervetMonkey Many thanks for explaining! I now understand how well the intro cage would work for the selection even if no babies are present. On intro days I've noticed the way interested foster mums usually head for the food bowl first and male monkeys of all ages come to the closed door begging to be let in. So they certainly associate the intro cage and human volunteer activity with the nicest kind of fresh food chopped up into bite-sized chunks.

[@shannonmjmccluskey4033]

Do the females ever breed with the older male monkeys?

[@kurumais]

eating grass seems a big risk for tree dwellers

[@caroleboulet4587]

I don’t mind watching the ads but 40 minute ad. You can’t expect people to watch a 40 min add.

[@VervetMonkey]

Im not in charge of the ads and you should be able to skip them as far as I know, I doubt they will be 40 min as that would be the lenght of a movie maybe you clicked on another video by mistake and watch a whole movie

[@judypinos7097]

Can you tell me how Floki is doing?

[@kimberlyschwartz9110]

So what do the Monkeys do regarding snakes!

[@VervetMonkey]

They just tell each other where they are and pretty much avoid them

[@draperone371]

How did you figure out that these monkeys would adopt?

[@VervetMonkey]

most monkeys will adopt, its not the adoption thats difficult its the ensuring they get milk to drink

[@draperone371]

@@VervetMonkey well I think you people are amazing. Bless all of your hearts

[@mariarl3303]

Are you in need of &?

[@shannonmjmccluskey4033]

Do the females ever breed with the older male monkeys?

[@VervetMonkey]

do they copulate yes, breed no