Winnipeg zoo to adopt monkeys and porcupines from flood-ravaged Calgary zoo

Winnipeg will provide a new home for two species of animal displaced by flooding in Calgary.

Assiniboine Park Zoo announced Friday it will adopt three cotton-top tamarins (monkeys) and two prehensile-tailed porcupines.

They’ll be arriving in the next couple of weeks. Calgary’s zoo suffered more than $60 million damage and was forced to lay off 300 staff and close its South America exhibit as a result of disastrous flooding on the Bow River last month.

Visitors to the Zoo can expect to see the cotton-top tamarins and prehensile-tailed porcupines at the end of August.

The Calgary Zoo has also had to send away its Amazon parrots to Vancouver, its gibbons, Goeldi’s monkeys and Amazon parrots to Niagara, ON; its sloths to Peterborough, ON; and its giant anteaters and Hyacinth macaws to Moncton, NB.

New homes have not yet been found for the zoo’s spider monkeys, DeBrazza’s monkeys and Andean condors.