Aila, a 10-year-old capuchin monkey, turns the pages of a phone book as she demonstrates how trained monkeys can help the disabled or paralyzed to read at the "Helping Hands: Monkey Helpers for the Disabled" organization's "monkey college" facility in Boston in this photograph taken May 18, 2004. The organization, which has already trained more than 93 monkeys to live with and assist severely disabled or paralyzed people, hopes to enroll many more student monkeys in its 2-3 year "monkey college" training program and then provide them to the disabled for assistance.
Residents in Mount Dora, Florida are seeing and recording monkeys out in the wild in their neighborhoods. Here are residents recording and talking about the monkeys.
Of Note: Mount Dora is located a dozen miles from Silver Springs, where a wild population of monkeys live. People were unaware that they were strong swimmers to escape the island.
