Primates in US Zoos.

[drill]

What species of primates are in US zoos. Are there any Moor macaques, Barbary macaques, White-naped mangabeys, Whiteside's guenons, Lowe's monkey, and Hamlyn's guenons?

 

[birdsandbats]

A list of primate species I have seen in the US (there are probably more):

Ring-Tailed Lemur
Mongoose Lemur
Crowned Lemur
Black-And-White Ruffed Lemur
Red Ruffed Lemur
Blue-Eyed Black Lemur
Brown-Eyed Black Lemur
Pygmy Slow Loris
Moholi Bushbaby
Potto
Common Marmoset
Black-Tufted Marmoset
Geoffroy's Marmoset
Goeldi's Monkey
Cotton-Top Tamarin
Emperor Tamrin
Golden Lion Tamrin
Golden-Headed Lion Tamarin
Tufted Capuchin
White-Headed Capuchin
Common Squirrel Monkey
Gray-Bellied Night Monkey
various "generic" night monkeys
Black Howler Monkey
Black-Handed Spider Monkey
various "generic" spider monkeys
Allen's Swamp Monkey
Patas Monkey
Vervet Monkey
Diana Monkey
Blue Monkey
Red-Tailed Monkey
DeBrazza's Monkey
Celebes Crested Macaque
Crab-Eating Macaque
Rhesus Macaque
Bonnet Macaque
Japanese Macaque
Black-Crested Magabey
Hamadryas Baboon
Olive Baboon
Mandrill
Angolian Colobus
Eastern Black-And-White Colobus
Francois' Langur
Northern White-Cheeked Gibbon
White-Handed Gibbon
Chimpanzee
Bonobo
Western Gorilla
Bornean Ornagutan
Sumatran Orangutan

 

[Loxodonta Cobra]

I know that the last Barbary macaques used to live in the now closed Las Vegas Zoo. They now live in the Primate Rescue Center in Kentucky. I don't know about the status of the other species.

 

[TheGerenuk]

Regarding prosimians, another somewhat common species that is not yet mentioned is the Coquerel's sifaka. A few zoos, including the Bronx and San Diego zoos, have them on display.

 

[Great Argus]

A few additions to birdsandbats' list. I have seen all but the Aye-aye, keep missing them.

Aye-aye
Pied Tamarin
White-faced Saki
Wolf's Guenon
Lesser Spot-nosed Guenon
Kikiyu Colobus
Gelada
Siamang

 

[Great Argus]

Regarding prosimians, another somewhat common species that is not yet mentioned is the Coquerel's sifaka. A few zoos, including the Bronx and San Diego zoos, have them on display.

Becoming more common I think, Sacramento Zoo has had them for years, San Francisco and San Diego both got them relatively recently, and I believe a few other facilities have too.

 

[dsimmons917]

Drill, Mandrillus leucophaeus, at Zoo Atlanta. As far as I know, it's the only zoo in the U.S. that has them.

 

[JVM]

Drill, Mandrillus leucophaeus, at Zoo Atlanta. As far as I know, it's the only zoo in the U.S. that has them.

How times change - weren't drills a fairly common species twenty years ago?

A lone red-faced spider monkey, Esmeralda, was at Brookfield Zoo until maybe a year ago.

 

[Cyclone]

How times change - weren't drills a fairly common species twenty years ago?

A lone red-faced spider monkey, Esmeralda, was at Brookfield Zoo until maybe a year ago.

I thought she passed away and now brookfield has Angolan colobus instead of just the norm colobus

 

[JVM]

I thought she passed away and now brookfield has Angolan colobus instead of just the norm colobus

Yes, she did pace away - about a year ago, as I was trying to indicate. Sorry, I wasn't clear.

I don't know the Colobus situation though, that's a good question.

 

[Cyclone]

Yes, she did pace away - about a year ago, as I was trying to indicate. Sorry, I wasn't clear.

I don't know the Colobus situation though, that's a good question.

It was quite sad that she was the only one of her species in the exhibit I know most people hate tropic world the the shear size to exhibits minus the gorilla exhibit is huge wish they would just open the netting to combine the 2 African exhibits together

 

[pachyderm pro]

The red-faced spider monkey, Esmerelda, passed away in early 2016. Also yes, Brookfield did switch some what recently to Angolan colobus monkeys.