Baby Monkey Whose Mother Was Killed by a Power Line Gets the Help He Needs (graphic photos)

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By: Alicia Graef January 31, 2017

Vincent was just a few weeks old when his life was tragically forever changed. Despite losing his mother and being left with life-threatening injuries, he was lucky enough to find himself in the care of rescuers who helped him heal.

Vincent is a howler monkey who lives in Costa Rica, where many of his kind suffer from being electrocuted on uninsulated power lines and transformers.

His mother was fatally electrocuted, and when she died, she slumped over Vincent, pinning his small body against the uninsulated transformer that took her life.

He was so small at the time, it wasn’t clear whether or not he would survive. He suffered from severe third degree burns to his hands and face; the skin on his forehead had been burned down to the bone leaving an indentation, his left eye was burned closed and most of his left earlobe had been burned off.

Video below. FULL story: http://www.care2.com/causes/baby-monkey-whose-mother-was-killed-by-a-power-line-gets-the-help-he-needs.html

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