TIME Magazineのインスタグラム(time) - 11月3日 23時15分

It’s not easy to make friends with a capuchin monkey. They’re willful, mischievous and, if they take it into their heads, can break any breakable you’ve got in the house—no small feat for an animal that’s only about two feet tall and weighs just seven pounds. But if you do click with a #capuchin, something deep and sweet can happen. That’s especially so with the #monkeys of Helping Hands, in Boston, that spend much of their lives working with people with paraplegia and quadriplegia who need the daily assistance of a full-time aide to fetch objects, turn switches, open bottles and more, and will do the job for love, care and the occasional lick of peanut butter—or hummus if that is more to their liking. Photographer @robin_schwartz recently visited one such well-matched team: Siggy, a 30 year old monkey; and Travis Amick, a 31-year old man with quadriplegia with some use of his arms, living in California, to observe their collaboration at work. Matching up the right monkey with the right human is “similar to online dating,” says Helping Hands spokeswoman Angela Lett. One of the key variables is the extent of the human’s disability. The gross motor control Travis has retained in his arms allows him to care for himself in many ways that a person with complete quadriplegia couldn’t; just as significantly, he can handle Siggy and thus demonstrate his dominance clearly and physically. “Shortly after Travis had Siggy, his wheelchair got stuck in a awkward reclining position and when he tried to call his sister for help, his cell phone dropped on the ground and the battery popped out,” says Lett. “Siggy collected both pieces of the phone and put the battery back in.” See the full photo essay on TIME.com. Photograph by @robin_schwartz for TIME

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