She said an older orphaned monkey can't be released alone into the jungle.

NPR: Monkey-Mothering 24-Hour Chore For Colombian Woman

The long hours of monkey mothering don't bother the 54-year-old Colombian woman, she said, because she already raised two children.

NPR: Monkey-Mothering 24-Hour Chore For Colombian Woman

Remember, Super Monkey Ball wasn't built in a day -- it took a bit more than 365 of them before being offered after the launch of the original iPhone.

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"When Monkey Island came out, it didn't do very well, " says Ron Gilbert, Monkey Island co-creator and former LucasArts employee.

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He didn't dare wait until the monkey results were in since AstraZeneca might swoop in and outbid him, so he offered to buy Centaur's assets for a 30% stake in the privately held Renovis if the monkey trials worked.

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Dr. Mitalipov said his lab had tried transplanting entire blastocysts into a monkey's womb, but those experiments hadn't yielded a single successful pregnancy.

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So why can't a purpose-built frame or set of monkey bars provide all of this?

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"I need to apologize at this point, because I can't get over the fact that I kissed a monkey this morning on the Today show and I initiated it, " she told us.

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The monkey was about 5 days old when it arrived, and the man said he couldn't bring himself to leave it to die, Cardenas said.

NPR: Monkey-Mothering 24-Hour Chore For Colombian Woman