CT zoo hosted an online poll to name its baby…
This was a real order of monkey business.
A Connecticut zoo requested for help naming its baby spider monkey — and revealed the successful moniker on Facebook Friday.
The Beardsley Zoo in Bridgeport created an online poll so the public may help choose an ape-propriate name for their feminine Black-handed spider monkey, which born in December.
They gave three selections — Esperanza, Mirabel and Reyna — and even explained what the names imply in Spanish: hope, fantastic and queen, respectively.
Mirabel, who lives at the Beardsley Zoo, was born in December. Beardsley Zoo Facebook
The names, which was chosen by animal care specialists, had been in Spanish, because Black-handed spider monkeys are native to Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua and Panama.
“She’s growing, climbing, and thriving and now it’s up to you to choose the name that becomes part of her zoo story,” the zoo said when explaining the poll, which ended on Thursday.
The newly named Black-handed spider monkey may be seen with her mother by friends at the zoo. Beardsley Zoo Facebook
Mirabel is housed with her mom in their habitat, and may be seen by friends at the Beardsley Zoo, which is the only zoo in the state of Connecticut.
She is one of the most recent additions at the more than 100-year-old zoo, which also not too long ago welcomed two pink pandas, an ocelot, two scarlet ibises and seven guinea hog piglets.
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