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The number of barbary macaques born this year is now 5.

But more important, last week a red howler monkey was born, this is already the 3 young since they got 1,2 from Cologne in 2012.
 
Today a female Squirrel monkey called Tjonge had her 18th birthday ! Don't know if it's a record but in any case it is VERY old for an Squirrel monkey !
 
Apenheul had another really old squirrel monkey, Plons, who was believed to be the eldest squirrel monkey ever to be recorded in captivity. She was euthanized when she was 26.
 
The Hanuman langurs are no longer free-ranging in their enclosure. I visited Apenheul yesterday and between the Langures and the visitor-path netting has been places. I don't know if any accidents have happened or what else was the reason to end the experiment of free-ranging Hanuman langurs....
( I've up-loaded some pictures in the Apenheul Gallery )
 
The netting has always been there, on your right-hand side right as you walk into the aviary. It's their enclosure during the hours when they are not allowed to roam free, because keepers need to be there in order to surveillance (typically from 12 pm to 5 pm they can roam free).

In other news, the last golden lion tamarin is now being held off-show or has left the collection. The silvery marmosets are not free-ranging anymore and held in their enclosure next to the gorilla housing, and I could only spot two silvery marmosets; an adult & a youngster.
 
White-faced saki born last week, now on-show next to the gibbon island.

The red howler youngster is confirmed to be male.
 
Very late I know but baby bonobo born at Apenheul. Second girl to Kumbuka, unsure who the father is but high chance it's Bolombo, the male who arrived in 2011 from Cologne.
 
Last Sunday Sandy the Orangutan gave birth to a death young :(. The birth was 2 months earlier as it had should be ....
 
Black tufted-ear marmoset have been added to Apenheul's collection and are on-show in the walk-through area next to the woolly monkeys (with red titi, pied tamarin and golden-headed lion tamarins). If everything goes to plan, the golden lion tamarins will also return to the park later this year. :)

New male langur arrived from Moscow this winter, and the 1.3 langurs are now (after an interruption of a year) back on show!
 
Someone has said Kevin (orangutan) was the father of Sandy's baby. Hasn't he had other baby(s) that have not survived or am I remembering wrongly?
 
@OrangePerson, Kevin could be the father, but DNA tests will have to prove it, as they have 2 adult males. It would be his first offspring at all.
 
Black-tufted marmosets are all males, and have come from Epe (which closed recently). Sad about Sandy :( but I was there yesterday and saw all the species Apenheul currently have (35)
Good news about the golden lion tamarins!
 
Also, I just read the conversation people were having about the Hanuman langurs...London Zoo are planning on having a walk through of Hanuman langurs with their new Land of Lions exhibit, though whether the monkeys will be allowed to interact with people (so whether there'll be netting or not between the monkeys and the visitors) is another thing.
 
ShonenJake13 said:
London Zoo are planning on having a walk through of Hanuman langurs with their new Land of Lions exhibit, though whether the monkeys will be allowed to interact with people (so whether there'll be netting or not between the monkeys and the visitors) is another thing.
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London Zoo- on the Architect sketches it did show a walk through-type concourse with the Langurs enclosed from the visitors. I think London is still fairly conservative and probably not prepared to risk a direct-contact set-up with them.
 
Again bad luck for Apenheul with the proboscis monkey's. Male Bagik died last saturday :(. Cause of death is a twisted large intestine. Apenheul is now down to one proboscis monkey again. They will talk to Singapore about the future of the proboscis monkey's at Apenheul in the following weeks.
More information on the website of Apenheul (only in Dutch):
Apenheul verliest neusaap - Apenheul
 
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