Mickey, 11 years old, is a Guenon Vervet, who was obtained from a non-profit refuge. He had never seen another monkey from the time he had been pulled away from his mother at a very early age. At his former refuge, he had been placed 10 feet from a 200-pound chimpanzee and within two weeks of his arrival, started to self-mutilate. However, after he came to the sanctuary, he began to slowly heal and now interacts well with the other primates—he no longer self mutilates but has a ‘pointer finger’ from previous tendon damage.
