Old world monkeys in Latin American zoos

Enzo said:
I haven't seen anyone talking about the Brasília zoo on this thread. According to their website, they have a group of Japanese macaques (I believe the group has six individuals) and sacred baboons. I think Bioparque Ukumari (Pereira, Colombia) has sacred baboons, probably obtained from the Matecaña City Zoo (Pereira, Colombia), after its closure.
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If I'm not wrong, we already mentioned Brasilia's hamadryas baboons and japanese macaques here. I'm not sure about how many individuals of each they've got. I could spot four macaques on my visit, and the baboons were not in their exhibit, due to maintenance issues.

Didn't know about these in Pereira though.
 
There were red-tailed guenons at the Parque Dois Irmãos during the 1990's (they were mistakenly called patas monkeys). At the park, there were also mandrills at the time. The Piracicaba zoo also had mandrills during the 1990's. Take a look at those videos:
 
Enzo said:
There were red-tailed guenons at the Parque Dois Irmãos during the 1990's (they were mistakenly called patas monkeys). At the park, there were also mandrills at the time. The Piracicaba zoo also had mandrills during the 1990's. Take a look at those videos:
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For these videos you've been sharing, I'm realizing that, if Piracicaba zoo still kept all these species in the present days, they would probably represent one of the most diverse collections in the country. Never imagined this institution held so many species at all. Only the old world monkey collection is bigger than any zoo in the country nowadays, if I'm not wrong... Anyway, at these times, for Rio and São Paulo having uncomparable collections, Piracicaba probably wasn't too highlighted.
 
The Brasília zoo's website claims that the institution has black-crested mangabeys. Interestingly enough, the Parque Ecológico Isidoro Borbon had some of those (two sisters) as well, which they sent to the Piracicaba zoo in 2012. I don't know if any of those are still there, once the last thing I could about them was a photo from 2015 from the Piracicaba zoo's facebook page. Also, according to the CENP's (Centro Nacional de Primatas) website, they have grivets.
 
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Back in 2019, the Bosque Fábio Barreto (the Ribeirão Preto city zoo) had a male mandrill. He may still be there. Also, they have/had baboons. Look at these videos:
 
Enzo said:
Back in the 1990's, the Brasília zoo kept baboons from at least two species, as you can see in this video:
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This video always makes me laugh. It's so hilarious and random at the same time...
Jokes apart, indeed "Eliseu" was probably an olive baboon, and "Capitu" an hamadryas. She was still alive untill around 2016. Her children and grandsons still live at the zoo and fortunately just won a new exhibit.
 
Enzo said:
The Goiânia zoo kept mandrills in the 2000's, as you can see in this video:
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They kept them untill 2013, if I'm not wrong. Some relatives of mine that went to the zoo a little before this date told me they had seen the specimen.
Also, I just found out that the Bica zoo, in João Pessoa, keeps vervet monkeys.
 
David Matos Mendes said:
They kept them untill 2013, if I'm not wrong. Some relatives of mine that went to the zoo a little before this date told me they had seen the specimen.
Also, I just found out that the Bica zoo, in João Pessoa, keeps vervet monkeys.
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If you take a look at TripAdvisor, not only you'll see the vervet, but you'll also see a macaque (I believe it's a rhesus macaque).
 
Have I already mentioned that according to the Correio da Manhã newspaper, the Rio de Janeiro zoo got two moustached guenons from the Antwerp zoo in 1952? They came along with an European boar, a red river hog, a dorcas gazelle, two red foxes and two seagulls.
 
Enzo said:
Have I already mentioned that according to the Correio da Manhã newspaper, the Rio de Janeiro zoo got two moustached guenons from the Antwerp zoo in 1952? They came along with an European boar, a red river hog, a dorcas gazelle, two red foxes and two seagulls.
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That's great to know. Do you know untill when these animals were kept in Rio? Such interesting specimens!
 
The Parque Safari Chile (Rancagua, Chile) probably holds some sacred baboons, as you can see on TripAdvisor.
 
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