AAS was told that the SPCA gave Marmoset monkeys to the Greater Vancouver Zoo. This was confirmed in a June 1st email:

Yes, the zoo has helped the SPCA out several times by adopting exotic animals they have found in their possession, including some common marmosets. We have also regularly given the SPCA advice on how to care for some of the exotic animals in their care.

Jamie Dorgan
Animal Care Manager
Greater Vancouver Zoo

Mr Dorgan does not say where the SPCA got the Marmosets, but other information indicates that they were seized in December 2002 from a breeder in Kaslo who was subsequently charged with cruelty.

At the time the SPCA gave the Zoo the monkeys and other animals, the Zoo was less humane than it is now, when the SPCA had cruelty charges laid.

In 2002, Craig Daniell was Manager of Cruelty Investigations and may have approved of the monkeys going to the Zoo. Mr Daniell is now the CEO of the SPCA may have approved of the recent charges being laid.

Yet the Zoo has improved since the SPCA gave it animals.