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Monkey returns to Africa after five years in Singapore chains

May 04, 2004

Singapore - An African monkey who was kidnapped and kept illegally in chains in Singapore for five years flew back to his home continent on a commercial plane Tuesday after being rescued by animal activists.

Animal Concerns Research and Education Society of Singapore (Acres) president Louis Ng said a sailor had smuggled the vervet monkey, nicknamed Blue, into the Southeast Asian nation from South Africa and sold him as a pet.

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