Mojo

Vervet Monkey
2 years Years old

Mojo is a young male and as he was severely traumatised when very little, he is quite a timid monkey.

He had little human contact until he was 3 months old. On arrival at the orphanage he was a very frightened animal, and in pain since he had just had his shoulder pinned after being hit by a car.

The accident also caused him to lose half of one ear, which makes him easily recognizable. Today he is quite a big monkey but still shy, and he keeps himself to himself.

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Latest News About Mojo

Mojo moves to join other vervet monkeys
30th December 2007

Mojo is now finally growing up and has been moved to the new enclosure together with the some other older vervet monkeys.

Read the whole story here.

As part of his rehabilitation process back into the wild Mojo has now been placed in the main vervet monkey cage. Here he will learn monkey life skills and this will decide where he sits in the dominace ladder within the troop. All this is important in the final release process where over the period of time the animals in the troop learn to depend on each other for certain roles with in the group.