While visiting the pet shop a day or two earlier, Carr had witnessed the monkey being bullied by her fellow primates and, as the Victoria artist later wrote in The Heart of a Peacock (176), "Suddenly I wanted her - I wanted her tremendously." ...began a fourteen-year-long relationship between fifty-one-year-old Emily Carr and two-year-old Woo, as Carr called her new pet. Grant Hayter-Menzies's Woo, the Monkey Who Inspired Emily Carr begins with Carr's long interest in primates - as a student she observed monkeys at the London Zoo in Regent's Park. Coming back down to earth, Grant Hayter-Menzies then attempts to understand why Carr gave Woo to the Stanley Park Zoo in 1937 and what the animal might have encountered during her year there: "It is hard to deny that of all the places where Woo could have been, the Monkey House at Stanley Park Zoo was the worst possible choice" (121).