Officials at the Elmvale Jungle Zoo are breathing a sigh of relief at the return of one of their stolen animals after it had been missing for five months.
Agnes, a baby Gibbon monkey, was reunited with the zoo on Friday after police located the animal at a home in Quebec.
Michel Persi, with the Elmvale Jungle Zoo, said “we are happy to have Agnes home with her family. In the coming weeks, she will be slowly re-introduced to her cousins, Jasmine and Gracie, and reintegrated back into the zoo community.”
Police say thieves cut through a parking lot fence back in May and allegedly stole three animals from the zoo.
A missing lemur was found in a rural area north of Montreal by motorists in June. An 18-inch tortoise named Stanley is still missing.
Two suspects, 21-year-old Alex Pearlmutter and 20-year-old Adrian Frei, were charged with breaking-and-entering and theft.
