NEWS - RARE BABY MONKEY REMOVED FROM MOMS CARE-DOING FINE

Rare Baby Monkey Removed From Mom's Care

One-Week-Old Silver Leaf Monkey To Be Hand-Raised At The San Diego Zoo

POSTED: 3:28 pm PDT July 27, 2011

UPDATED: 4:23 pm PDT July 27, 2011

SAN DIEGO -- The first silvered leaf monkey to be hand-raised at the San Diego Zoo was doing well Wednesday.According to San Diego Zoo, the one-week-old female named "Thai" was born July 3 to a first-time mother.Sadly, Thai's mother was not holding her correctly for nursing, animal keeper Janet Hawes said, she needs to be bottle-fed several times daily."The small, orange monkey continues to spend time with her family between feedings so that social bonds remain strong," San Diego Zoo said.The monkey is a rare Asian species that is born with orange fur that becomes silver as they age. Females have some white patches.They're generally found in coastal mangrove forests in Borneo, Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula, in habitats considered to be threatened by deforestation.