VANCOUVER—Zoo keeper Cindy Hulst was making her regular rounds to give medicine to animals at the Greater Vancouver Zoo yesterday morning when she noticed an eerie silence from the spider monkey cage.
When she reached their enclosure, Hulst discovered one of the primates lying dead on the ground and the other missing.
“Usually, the two spider monkeys come vocalizing, excited to see me in the morning and there was nothing,” she said in an interview.