{"id":381504,"date":"2010-03-02T15:00:55","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T20:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8ed7109970b"},"modified":"2010-03-02T15:01:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T20:01:47","slug":"your-morning-adorable-squirrel-monkeys-forage-in-jell-o-dont-get-in-trouble-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/381504","title":{"rendered":"Your morning adorable: Squirrel monkeys forage in Jell-O, don’t get in trouble for it"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At New York’s Bronx Zoo<\/a> a few months back, the resident squirrel monkeys received the strangest treat they’d ever seen: Jell-O.<\/p>\n

The blue goo was stuffed with blueberries — a highly desirable treat for the monkeys — which stimulated their foraging instincts, according to the zoo. That means that, for squirrel monkeys, eating Jell-O isn’t just snacking — it’s considered an enrichment activity.<\/p>\n

Squirrel monkeys spend much of their time leaping from tree to tree in the South and Central American tropical forests that are their native habitat. They’re well adapted for such a style of movement<\/a>: Their legs are proportioned in such a way as to give them extra force when jumping.<\/p>\n

In Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands and Slovenia, squirrel monkeys are called something very different (and a little bit creepy). In those countries, the name for these little guys references the skull-like markings on their faces and translates to "death’s head monkey."<\/p>\n

— Lindsay Barnett<\/p>\n

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At New York’s Bronx Zoo a few months back, the resident squirrel monkeys received the strangest treat they’d ever seen: Jell-O. The blue goo was stuffed with blueberries — a highly desirable treat for the monkeys — which stimulated their foraging instincts, according to the zoo. That means that, for squirrel monkeys, eating Jell-O isn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}