Thank you for your interest in helping the monkeys at Jungle Friends. We are always looking for mature, compassionate, long-term volunteers, staff, and interns with the willingness to learn, acquire new knowledge and the desire to make a difference. Please join our team!
Almost Wild is a 7-minute documentary about the monkeys who call Jungle Friends home and why the monkeys are here. Life in captivity can never match life in the wild, so we provide the monkeys a safe, loving "Almost Wild" home.
Already have a great job, no worries, we have volunteer positions and opportunities of all kinds! This is a video of the Jungle Friends rules. We can schedule you weekly or you can contact us when you will be available.
Intern Information Packet JFPS Caregiving + Job Descriptions Administrative Job Descriptions
Directions What to wear and bring to Volunteer Illness & Accident Protocols
At Jungle Friends we have three distinctly different areas.
Kansas is where you will find capuchins and spider monkeys. Emerald City is home to our squirrel monkeys. Munchkinland is where our marmosets and tamarins reside.Lindsey explains the Tricky Job of Housing Callitrichids Sara describes Feeding the Squirrel Monkeys.
At Jungle Friends we have special-needs monkeys -- many suffer from stereotypical behaviors, while others are blind, diabetic, or amputees. We have monkeys with heart disease, thyroid conditions, and metabolic bone disease. Many rounds of medications are given out each day.
Thanks to Bob Barker we have an on-site medical clinic where our veterinarians can perform procedures so the monkeys do not have to leave the sanctuary. This allows the monkeys to recuperate among humans they are familiar with.
We provide permanent high-quality care for nearly 200 New World monkeys who have been confiscated by the authorities, used in entertainment, former "pets", or retired from laboratory research. We appreciate your commitment to make a positive impact in the lives of our monkey friends.
Lots of Broken Stuff to Fix
Plenty of Planting and Landscaping
Hundreds of Monkey Bowls to Wash
Enhancing Habitats
Assist our Veterinarian
There is something for everyone at Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary -- from produce chopping to diet preparations, mowing to tree trimming, monkey laundry to monkey medications and everything in-between. Many of our monkeys are elderly. We have had capuchins live into their 50s here at Jungle Friends. Watch KC and Bongo engaging in playtime. Both monkeys are in their 40's and still going strong!
Pets: Kari on Capitol Hill -- Captive Primate Safety Act Entertainment: Join us to Fight Animal Cruelty, TEAPSPA. Research: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Sanctuary -- AFTER ACT Captive Primate Safety Act After Act
Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary is a smoke-free, drug-free workplace and do not allow tobacco products on the property. As a vegan organization, Jungle Friends does not allow the consumption or storage of animal products at the sanctuary. Please be sure to look over our Procedures Manual. If you know anyone interested in volunteering, interning or employment, please forward this email to them so they can apply. I look forward to working with you and introducing your friends to the monkeys and our mission
Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary Founder and Executive Director
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