--- title: Darwin the Ikea Monkey's Old Owner Now Has 2 More Monkeys description: The owner of a monkey that wandered around a Canadian Ikea in a shearling coat has acquired two more pet monkeys canonical: https://time.com/4518754/ikea-monkey-owner-new-monkeys/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-04T22:03:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:37:19.257Z og:title: The Ikea Monkey's Old Owner Now Has 2 More Monkeys og:description: Also, marmosets og:url: https://time.com/4518754/ikea-monkey-owner-new-monkeys/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc6666b9ea38150c0/6988a8b7a988ca46966b9a5c/yasmin-nakhuda.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4758 og:image:height: 2676 og:image:alt: Yasmin Nakhuda, Owner Of Darwin The IKEA Monkey, Outside Courthouse og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Ikea Monkey's Old Owner Now Has 2 More Monkeys twitter:description: Also, marmosets twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc6666b9ea38150c0/6988a8b7a988ca46966b9a5c/yasmin-nakhuda.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Ikea Monkey's Old Owner Now Has 2 More Monkeys > Sponsored content. 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Yasmin Nakhuda rose to international attention in 2012 when the Internet was swarmed with photos and videos of Darwin, a Japanese macaque, roaming around [Ikea](http://time.com/4511482/ikea-houseboat-ferry/) after he escaped from her car. Laws about buying exotic animals as pets are inconsistent in Canada, the CBC reports, but after a long court battle Darwin was taken to an animal sanctuary. Nakhuda misses him, but she has two new monkeys for company, one of which is also a Japanese macaque named Caesar. “He fills my life, I love him a lot, but he’s not Darwin and will never be Darwin,” Nakhuda told the CBC. In addition to her two new monkeys, Nakhuda has two marmosets, a wallaroo and a handful of other unusual pets. \[[CBC](http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/exotic-pets-laws-1.3790684)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4518754/ikea-monkey-owner-new-monkeys/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4518754/ikea-monkey-owner-new-monkeys/"},"headline":"Ikea Monkey's Old Owner Now Has 2 More Monkeys","datePublished":"2016-10-04T22:03:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:37:19.257Z","description":"Also, marmosets","url":"https://time.com/4518754/ikea-monkey-owner-new-monkeys/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc6666b9ea38150c0/6988a8b7a988ca46966b9a5c/yasmin-nakhuda.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc6666b9ea38150c0/6988a8b7a988ca46966b9a5c/yasmin-nakhuda.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Yasmin Nakhuda, Owner Of Darwin The IKEA Monkey, Outside Courthouse","caption":"Yasmin Nakhuda in Oshawa, Canada, on May 30, 2013","creditText":"Bernard Weil—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4518754/ikea-monkey-owner-new-monkeys/","name":"Ikea Monkey's Old Owner Now Has 2 More Monkeys"}}]}] ```