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A requiem for 'Cookie'

New Yorkers love a good animal story, and for a short time in 2000, none was bigger than Cookie's, the Brooklyn monkey whose social charms -- she ate rocky road ice cream, liked television and knew how to use the toilet -- meant nothing to state officials trying to wrest her away from her family.

But the state Department of Environmental Conservation backed down and Cookie, a brief international...

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