Baby Goeldi's Monkey at the Vancouver Aquarium

The Goeldi's monkey family living at the Vancouver Aquarium recently got a little bigger! Ginger, our female Goeldi's monkey, gave birth to a healthy newborn on the morning of Sunday, October 23, 2011.

"Mother and baby are slowly bonding and are doing well," says Dr. Dennis Thoney, director of Animal Operations. "The newborn has been nursing and the mother appears to be comfortable in her habitat with the newborn on her back. To allow mother and newborn time to bond, we will be closely monitoring but not disturbing them — as such, the sex of the newborn will not be known for another few weeks."

This new addition now makes it a family of five Goeldi's monkeys and consists of the new baby, Ginger (mother), Fred (father), Diego (older brother) and Hugo, (youngest brother).

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Pets & Animals

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• Baby
• Goeldi's
• Monkey
• Vancouver
• Aquarium

[ivanaman]

Do they have a permanent home at Vanaqua?

[VancouverAquarium]

@ivanaman Yes they do, in our Amazon gallery.

[killbabymonkeys]

If that little guy hadn't opened his eyes, you wouldn't know he/she was there. What a cutie.

[lotrfreak2010]

@MegF142857 Yes! They have the same reflex that newborn humans do - when you place something in there, their fists close around it. :)

[MegF142857]

Do they have a default clinging on with their little hands? Baby seems to be sleeping some and not falling off the mother.

[faythelululemon]

the new baby is adorable! Has the gender been known yet?