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Original post, Sunday:
This unnamed infant's gender will be determined soon. Keepers don't want to intrude on parent-monkey bonding. Four more scenes are below. (Photos: Detroit Zoological Society)
See how one family in Royal Oak spends this last weekend of May.
"The newest member of the Japanese macaque troop is already starting to venture out," the Detroit Zoo tweets Sunday with these photos of the unnamed newcomer born exactly three weeks earlier.
Its mother, named Lynda by keepers, also was born at the suburban zoo 21 years ago. The father is "Haru, 9, who joined us in 2016," an earlier social media post says. "Fellow youngsters Hana, Jun and Umi will have a new playmate" after an isolation period.
"We’ll be able to confirm the sex after some much-needed quality time with mom," the zoo says.
The species, native to Japan, is also known as the snow monkey because some live in areas where snow covers the ground for months each year. No other non-human primate lives in a colder climate or at a more northern latitude.
This tender tableau was posted May 11, three days after the birth.
The young monkey is friskier three weeks later.
A partial family portrait