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Baby Monkey Threatens To Break Internet With Cuteness

(CBS) – Brookfield Zoo is reporting the birth of a black-crested mangabey, but all you probably need to know is he's a kind of monkey and preposterously cute.

The male, Zingo, was born July 4 to mangabey parents Kiwi (mother) and Videll (father). At birth, the baby monkey has light-colored face and hands and looks very different from adult mangabeys, which are darker, zoo officials say.

Zingo And His Mom
Zingo is seen here with his mother, Kiwi. (Jim Schulz/Chicago Zoological Society)

The family may be spotted in the Brookfield Zoo's Tropic World: Africa as the mangabeys are rotated in, zoo officials said in a news release issued Friday.

Baby Mangabey
Zingo is a newborn mangabey at the Brookfield Zoo. (Jim Schulz/Chicago Zoological Society)

In addition to Zingo, three squirrel monkeys were born in July, zoo officials said.

Zingo, Kiwi
Zingo and mother Kiwi, mangabeys. (Jim Schulz/Chicago Zoological Society)

 

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