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Eli, a 15-year-old howler monkey at Utah's Hogle Zoo, undergoes sinus surgery to remove congestion blocking his breathing. University of Utah doctors and zoo veterinarians assisted in the surgery at Hogle Zoo, on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012. (Photo courtesy University of Utah Health Care)

Hogle Zoo monkey gets sinus operation

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, December 19, 2012 - 11:11am

SALT LAKE CITY — One of the monkeys at Hogle Zoo got some of the best medical help for a sinus problem.

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Isabel Hadley talks about the "Monkey in My Chair" program and her fourth-grade class at Cook Elementary School in Syracuse on Wednesday. Isabel has cancer and misses a lot of school, so the monkey takes her place in class. Fellow students place notes and pictures in its backpack for when it is sent home for a visit with Isabel. It reminds the students that Isabel will return and reminds Isabel that her fellow students miss her. (NICHOLAS DRANEY/Standard-Examiner)

Monkey serves as reminder to sick Syracuse student, classmates

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, March 1, 2012 - 7:18am

SYRACUSE — The 3-foot-tall, extra-soft, stuffed monkey sat on Isabel Hadley’s lap.

The fourth-grader had dropped by her Cook Elementary classroom Wednesday to say hello to her classmates and to see firsthand what the animal — officially named Monkey — was up to.

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Monkeys die while being shipped in crates to Asia

Andrew Blankstein Los Angeles Times

Last updated Friday, September 9, 2011 - 2:25pm

LOS ANGELES -- Two men, including a Florida animal broker, have been charged by L.A. city prosecutors with multiple counts of animal cruelty after more than a dozen monkeys died being while shipped from South America to Asia via Los Angeles International Airport.

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