A crowd funding campaign was launched for the IKEA monkey to find him a bigger home.
The IKEA monkey, called "Darwin" by his family at The Story Book Farm Primate Sanctuary, is looking for a bigger property to live on with his 21 primate friends.
The new sanctuary that Darwin could move to is described as a "new home [with] 56 acres of rolling hills with trees aplenty and ample space, with indoor and outdoor areas for all our residents," according to its Indiegogo page.
The owners of the sanctuary - a group of 30 volunteers - are being forced to move by the spring of 2015 leading them to crowd funding so they can get their monkeys a better place to hang.
They are looking to raise $490,000.
Most of the money ($250,000) will go towards a down payment on the property, as explained on Indiegogo. Another $100,000 will be used for enclosures, flooring and structual adjustments; $40,000 will be put towards staff saleries, and the last $100,000 will be put towards the endowment fund for future security for the monkeys.
Darwin became a part of the Stony Brook sanctuary in Dec. 2012 when he was found wandering in a Toronto-area IKEA parking lot wearing a now-famously recognized jacket. When Darwin was found, a lengthy trial occurred involving The Story Book Farm Primate Sanctuary and his former owner. The trial ended with the courts putting him under the care of the sanctuary.
