It’s a jungle out there — just the way she likes it.
A 3-year-old spider monkey named Ticky recently made a hilarious special appearance in The Bronx — clad in a diaper while frolicking around her owner’s tow truck.
“Everybody wants to take pictures with her,” said “Junior,” 40, to The Post on Monday, referring to his gangly buddy, who occasionally accompanies him for his business, Bronx towing company CBC Automotive.
Ticky, 3, a diaper-wearing spider-monkey, sometimes accompanies the owner of Bronx-based CBC Automotive on the job. Citizen NYC “Everybody wants to take pictures with her,” said “Junior,” 40, to The Post on Monday, referring to his gangly buddy, who occasionally accompanies him for his business, Bronx towing company CBC Automotive. Citizen NYC
Junior, who didn’t want to give his last name, said his unusual companion is the realization of a childhood dream.
“Ever since I was a kid, I’ve always wanted one. It took me three years, but then I finally got her.”
Ticky tends to draw attention wherever she goes, and she recently enjoyed some viral fame after video of her playfully bounding in and out of Junior’s work truck window made the rounds online Sunday.
“Yesterday a guy asked to take a video of her, and now I’m getting all of these calls,” Junior said, admitting her sudden fame has been a mixed bag for the duo.
“I probably wouldn’t have let him if I knew she would go viral,” he said.
Junior says people ask to take pictures or video with his unusual coworker on a regular basis. Citizen NYC
“Yesterday a guy asked to take a video of her, and now I’m getting all of these calls,” Junior said. Citizen NYC
The adorable video, posted on X by Citizen NYC, shows Ticky having the time of her life, lounging atop the car door and checking herself out in the truck’s side-view mirror before swinging back inside from her tail.
“She’s very clingy, so she likes to be on me all the time,” Junior explained. “She’s very overprotective — she can’t be by herself or she starts whining. You have to have a lot of time for them because they’re like babies, you know?”
Junior says the snow-birding primate splits her time between the Big Apple and Florida “because of the weather.”
The adorable video, posted on X by Citizen NYC, shows Ticky having the time of her life, lounging atop the car door. Citizen NYC
Florida allows monkeys to be kept as pets with a special permit, but the New York Department of Health says they are not allowed in all five boroughs — that means even pets passing through.
Even in the Sunshine State, only certain species of monkeys can be kept and then only after obtaining a permit through a lengthy administrative process.
According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, permit holders must document at least 1,000 hours of experience working with the species they wish to possess.
They also must obtain two reference letters, including one from a current Florida permit holder.
It was not immediately known whether Junior has the required Florida permits to keep Ticky.
The New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene says spider monkeys are not allowed to be kept as pets in all five boroughs.
There are scores of other animals on the no-no list in the Big Apple, including wolves, hyenas, lions, tigers, iguanas, ferrets, elephants, iguanas, tarantulas and more.
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