Eats same food as you, even likes lollipops simple to care for and train. These young monkeys grow about 12 inches high. Almost human with its warm eyes, your family will love it. “This Squirrel Monkey makes an adorable pet and companion. It was easy to fall for their tiny bodies and cartoonish, inquisitive expressions. A number of dealers including Animal Farm peddled the primates. But in the 1960s and '70s, a kind of squirrel monkey fever took hold more than 173,000 of the animals were imported to the United States from Peru and Colombia, where they would then be sold via private dealers and comic or magazine ads, including the Warren horror publications like Creepy and Eerie. Because they're prone to destructive tendencies, few primatologists would ever advocate for keeping them in residential captivity. Jamie, Flickr // CC BY 2.0Ĭhipper was a squirrel monkey, a popular species in the exotic pet trade that the National Resources Defense Council describes as needing an “insane” amount of care. This 1959 comic book ad offered a live monkey to anyone willing to hand out coupons. Tuthill suspected a possible wasp sting but could never be sure. When Chipper was about 5 years old, he died suddenly. (Peanuts and seedless white grapes were appealing bananas were not.) Chipper also enjoyed riding on the back of the family’s border collie, cowboy-style. Books and trial and error gave him some rudimentary knowledge of how to care for it. Surprisingly, his parents allowed him to keep the monkey, which he named Chipper. When Tuthill grabbed it, the monkey began gnawing on his arm “like a drill press.”Ī trip to the emergency room resulted in Tuthill receiving 28 stitches. Rather than settle in, the monkey began using the plumbing pipes as a jungle gym. Tuthill carried the monkey home and brought it to his basement, where he expected it to join his menagerie of rabbits and gerbils. All you could see if you looked in there was his face.” It had a little chicken wire screen window in it. It was probably the size of a shoebox, except it was higher. “When he called, I rode over on my bike,” Tuthill said. To make sure his parents didn’t get wise, he had the primate delivered to a friend’s house. As a kid in the early 1970s, Tuthill was reading a Spider-Man comic when he spotted an ad for a live monkey, which promised to bring “joy” to one's household. In 2008, a man named Jeff Tuthill told his sordid tale of a mail-order monkey mishap. That honor goes to the Animal Farm company of Miami Beach, Florida, which promised delivery of a genuine, live squirrel monkey to anyone sending them $18.95, plus postage due on delivery. Sea-Monkeys were far from the most outlandish attempt to solicit live animals to excitable children. X-ray goggles promised to make adolescents clandestine Peeping Toms Charles Atlas vowed to turn slightly built kids into muscular powerhouses most notably, Sea-Monkeys guaranteed a small packet of powder would bring aquatic life to your home. For comic book readers of the 1960s and beyond, the ads for mail-order items were sometimes just as intriguing as the superhero action they interrupted.
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