OTTAWA, April 25 (Xinhua) -- A little callimico monkey stolen earlier this week from a zoo in Canada's eastern New Brunswick province was safely back home Friday, police and zoo officials said.

    Acting on a phone tip, police in the city of Saint John said they found the black monkey named April in a box on a street corner near a city gas station.

    A male called from a pay phone telling police to find the monkey behind a building near a gas station. "We went to the area where we found a type of box with holes cut through the top of it and the noise inside indicated it was our missing monkey," policeSgt. Pat Bonner told Canadian Television.

    The little animal turned out to be in good health after being checked by ecstatic zoo officials.

    April was stolen Wednesday morning when someone jumped a fence, kicked in a door, and took her from the enclosure she shared with her mother, father and brother.

    Police are now reviewing the tipster's call to determine if the voice provides any clues to the theft.

    The rare primates, also known as a Goeldi's monkies, are from the Amazon region of South America and considered an endangered species in the wild. They are tiny creatures, at nine months, April weighs only about half a kilogram.