Overview

• The female capuchin, nicknamed Maria, died Sunday during an anesthetic procedure at Instituto Vida Livre in Rio de Janeiro.
• She had been struck by a chumbinho pellet in the cervical region on September 9 in Gávea, leaving her paraplegic.
• Rescuers reported she received daily assisted care at the institute, including warming and assisted feeding.
• Rio’s Delegacia de Proteção ao Meio Ambiente initiated an investigative procedure after being notified of the case.
• Authorities have not determined who fired the shot, and the institute used the case to call attention to violence against urban wildlife.