Inside the Jardin des Plantes is La Ménagerie, a zoo founded in 1794. It is considered to be the oldest in the world along with de Schönbrunn, in Vienna. Among its 2,000 inhabitants, the ménageriecelebrated 168 births in 2010. One of the newborns in the singerie (monkey house), Coumba, became a bit of a celebrity in 2011 with an accident.

The inexperienced mother mangabey became too rough with her baby and broke its arm. Wearing a cast is a hard way to start off life for a newborn. Coumba, the female Mangabey was born in February 2011 and by the age of one and a half months was wearing an arm cast. Coumba’s arm repaired quickly as you will see in the Paris Mayor’s video.

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