Fugitive Spider Monkey W.C. Fields Back Safe and Sound

After nine days of San Antonian monkey madness, escaped spider monkey W.C. Fields has been caught and brought back home to Primarily Primates.  That’s him above looking a wee bit woozy after going bananas for over a week and getting a shot of tranquilizers.  Executive director  of Primarily Primates Stephen Tello was one of the first to spot him.

“I looked over, and there was the monkey,” he said excitedly by phone. “I tried to coax him over with grapes, but other people started to pull over and he shot off across the road.”

W.C. had been so well-fed during his time on the lam that he wasn’t interested in Tello’s fruit. He was also distracted by a number of onlookers who’d gathered on the side of the road, Tello said, and scaled a fence at Concept-Therapy Institute.

Daniel Rodriguez, a handler at Primarily Primates who knows W.C. well, was able to calm him by hand-feeding him grapes and bananas.

A Concept-Therapy Institute employee coaxed W.C. into an empty auditorium, and once he was locked in, Tello sedated him with the dart.

After being returned he was reunited with his mother Bertha and his sister Rosie.  Awwww…

Anyway, I’m happy for the little guy.  Sure, Primarily Primates might not be the jungle, but it’s definitely better than suburban Texas with its fried butter, midday duels, and unavoidably obnoxious Cowboys’ fans.

–Cap’n W.C. Jack

Related Article: 9 Days of Monkey Business Over: W.C. Fields Recaptured

W.C. Fields, a San Antonio spider monkey, has escaped and is roaming the streets of River City

Sad news was reported today that because of Tropical Storm Hermine passing through the San Antonio area last week, the 40-foot spider monkey enclosure at Primarily Primates was ripped open, allowing cute and cuddly W.C. Fields to escape.

Actually, two other spider monkey’s got free but were quickly, and safely, corralled.

Now W.C. is wandering the neighborhood around Boerne Stage Road.

Somewhere in this area...there abouts.

But not everybody thinks so highly of W.C. Fields and his cuddly and cute ways. Stephen Tello, the president of Primarily Primates, tells it this way:

“You can tell he’s lost,” Tello told the TV station. “You can tell he’s scared, doing a lot of vocalizations. So, we really have a scared, hungry primate.”

Poor guy! He must be terrified!

Then there’s this: