The Place To Be

South Bronx, New York
July 22, 2000

Cookie the monkey is just another member of the family. Well, she would be if she wasn't an endangered species. Roman, his wife and daughter added Cookie to the family after they met her at a Long Island pet store several years ago. Now she has to leave them and live in a zoo, because endangered species of monkeys can't live with families in the South Bronx.

Listen in for more on the story you first read in the New York Times about the plight of a monkey and her human family.

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