Davion Irvin was arrested late Thursday night and charged with six counts of animal cruelty-non-livestock.
A $25,000 reward was offered in the Dallas missing monkeys case as zoo officials released surveillance footage that "seems to have been critical in generating a tip that led to the recovery of the tamarins" in the home in Lancaster, Texas, about 15 miles away.
The monkeys went missing Monday from a habitat that had been "intentionally compromised," the zoo said, adding Dallas Police said they had reason to believe they were "intentionally taken from the enclosure." The zoo was closed Monday due to inclement weather, it earlier had announced, with the closure extended through Wednesday due to an ice storm.
"Emperor tamarin monkeys, Bella and Finn, were so happy to snuggle into their nest sack here at the Zoo last night!" it said on Facebook. "Our veterinary and animal care teams have said, beyond losing a bit of weight, they show no signs of injury and both started eating and drinking almost immediately once the team completed health exams on Tuesday night."Other strange developments with animals have unfolded in recent weeks at the Dallas Zoo.
Meanwhile, zoo staff observed a similar cut to the enclosure of some langur monkeys, but none of them had escaped, the zoo said. Police did not immediately determine whether the two incidents were related.
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