You see dozens of tiny luxurious cages where the menagerie is kept.  Instead of metal bars, the cages have bars of clearest crystal, and within are every sort of animal that walks, crawls, flaps or slithers.
Pet chamber, Inside Castle
a monkey friend
animal
I am an animal that lives under the bridge. I like to eat the scraps that the people leave. I enjoy scaring anyone that comes under the bridge.
Hey friend, nice to see you hear again. Were you captured?  Unfortunately, I see they got you too. If only I hadn't been foolish enough to fall into that wretched trap! The cheese looked so good... Its the bananas that got me! Those humans and their pesky traps! I think they're angry at me for scaring people from under my bridge  Well that might have upset them, I wonder what they will do when they find out I can speak. Well then we better keep quiet around them. A talking monkey might drive them up these walls!  Maybe that would be enough for them to let us out? Perhaps, or worse, they might throw you into one of those animal circuses, if the rumors are true...  What horror that must be!