As a result of a heat wave with temperatures above 45 degrees Celsius, countless howler monkeys in southeastern Mexico fall from trees, dead or dehydrated. “We have to take care of the animals,” President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said on Monday. He will therefore ask the Ministry of the Environment to participate. According to reports from environmentalists, 78 monkeys have already died in the states of Tabasco and Chiapas.
Rescue teams consisting of biologists and veterinarians travel to Tabasco to provide the howler monkeys with water and food, especially fruit, according to local civil defense. A total of four howler monkeys, including a cub, were found dead in the municipalities of Cunduacán and Comalcalco alone.
Animal rights activists collect fruit donations
Activists asked the public for donations of fruit to care for the monkeys. Videos circulated on social media of howler monkeys in a veterinary practice where they were given water to drink from syringes. In Cunduacán, some specimens were taken to a medical rescue center at a baseball field.
In addition to heat stroke and dehydration, the reasons for the death of howler monkeys include forest fires and the destruction of their natural habitat, leading to water and food shortages, the head of the environmental organization Cobius told the news site “Animal Político”.
Source: Krone
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