Airline asks, 'Is that a monkey in your ponytail?'

NEW YORK---A man smuggled a monkey onto an airplane, stashing the fist-size primate under his hat until passengers spotted it perched on his ponytail, an airline official in New York said.

On a flight from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to New York's LaGuardia airport, people around the man noticed that a marmoset — which normally lives in forest and eats fruit and insects — had emerged from underneath his hat, Spirit Airlines spoksewoman Alison Russell said. The man's journey had begun in Lima, Peru.



A marmoset, a small monkey that is found around the south american region. These little guys are endangered speices.







"Other passengers asked the man if he knew he had a monkey on him," Russell said.

The monkey spent the remainder of the flight in the man's seat and behaved well, said Russell. She did not know how the monkey skirted detection in Lima and during the man's several-hour layover in Fort Lauderdale.

LaGuardia airport police were waiting for the man and his monkey when the plane landed, and he was taken for questioning. It was unclear if he would face any criminal charges.

The city's animal control agency said the monkey appeared healthy. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was planning to take it for disease testing and keep it quarantined for 31 days, CDC spokesman Tom Skinner said.

If the monkey is healthy it could wind up in a zoo.



The pic of Marmoset:


Rare newborn albino marmoset. For more information
on the marmoset go to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmoset
or www.angelfire.com/pa/reclinata/

ooo dag its o soo cute...wat a tender soul ...i'd so take him home too