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Monkey Farm: A Summer Among the Macaques
15,000 captive macaques. One naive 22-year-old vet tech. A summer you couldn't make up if you tried.Nobody...
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15,000 captive macaques. One naive 22-year-old vet tech. A summer you couldn't make up if you tried.
Nobody warns you what to do when a full grown monkey with two-inch fangs decides to charge.
In 1995, Jeff Pennington took a job as a veterinary technician at a sprawling primate breeding facility. Within weeks he was alone in a corral running for his life. And that was a normal Tuesday.
There was also a pre-dawn boat ride to the island home of thousands of free-ranging monkeys. An exotic animal house call to a Frank Lloyd Wright estate and more true stories populated with primates and people stranger than you can imagine. Monkey Farm is full of hilarity, heartbreak and inspiration. Both a comedy of errors and the story of a homesick kid trying to figure out what he's made of.
Part This Is Going to Hurt, part All Creatures Great and Small, this is a story about choices that shape us before we understand ourselves.
Monkey Farm will fascinate and resonate with anyone who has ever wondered "what do I want to be when I grow up?"
Author: Jeff Pennington
Publisher: Balacynwood Press
Published: 11/08/2026
Pages: 170
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.43d
ISBN: 9798998815287
About the Author
Pennington, Jeff: - Before a career in pediatric research, Jeff Pennington wanted to be a veterinarian when he grew up. To get there, he worked entry-level jobs on farms and in animal hospitals. Eventually landing what seemed like a dream job working with monkeys at a large non-human primate breeding facility. Through this, he learned that a love of science and animals wasn't enough. A chance to work in data analysis led to a thirty year career with numbers, but a love of words never left. Jeff added "author" to his resume in 2025 and never looked back.
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