04/29/2026
Say hi to Jimmy and Emilio, crested capuchins, and Puck, a brown capuchin, who we rescued from a sanctuary in need on the West Coast in December. They have made themselves at home at Primarily Primates! Jimmy and Emilio have made it known what they like—they get particularly excited about mixed nuts and mirrors. Who wouldn’t like to look at themselves with those long tufts of hair converging to form a crest!
Puck has never lived with another capuchin before, but we think he’d be a good match with Shayna, so we are slowly introducing them.
These capuchins entered the sanctuary world as “surpluses” from zoo breeding programs. Notably, crested capuchins are among Brazil’s most endangered primates. These intelligent tool-users face extinction because of habitat loss and fragmentation from deforestation for soy, coffee, palm oil, cattle ranching, mining, and urban expansion in Brazil's Atlantic Forest. They are also impacted by hunting and the illegal pet trade.
Please donate to their lifelong care at primarilyprimates.org. Thanks to your support, Primarily Primates remains one of the very few accredited sanctuaries that actively rescues primates in need.
