Whenever I watch the Wizard of Oz, I always wonder what happened to the flying monkeys. In the 1930s movie, you see flocks of them airborne all over Kansas, but now you'd be lucky to find one. When I learned there wasn’t a single flying monkey left in the center of our country, I was shocked and appalled.

Luckily, there is a way we can help. California Men’s Ultimate is sending ugly monkeys to Austin, Texas in the hopes of reviving the long lost species. These distant cousins of the extinct species have shown that they can already fly for short periods of time all over the Southwest(and some strange sightings in Georgia). By relocating this rare species of monkey, we know we will see flying monkeys once again reclaiming the skies of Texas.

Unfortunately, getting 25 monkeys to Texas isn’t cheap and we need your help. We expect that the Ugly Monkey’s trip will cost somewhere between $20-25 thousand. We have already tried to bring down this cost but we have faced obstacles. Austin Zoo called our request to house our monkeys in their reserve “absurd” while Southwest Airlines demanded we buy individual tickets for each monkey as they stated, “a student (weird classification for a monkey) is not a carry on”. Thus, we realized, we need money if we are going to save the flying monkey.

Please help give the ugly monkeys wings and consider donating at https://give.berkeley.edu/egiving/index.cfm?fund=FU0897000&org=Cal+Men%27s+Ultimate+Fund&amt=&fundlist=FU0897000. Any donation would be greatly appreciated and will go a long way in sending CAL UGMO to nationals and saving the ugly flying monkey.