Touraco aviary. Until the mid 1980s this was a range of three primate cages (the right hand cage housed Coatis at the end of its life). These were modified around the end of the 1970s from being double mesh to the ground to single mesh on wall with a stand-off barrier. Species held over the years were Lar Gibbons (they were in the right hand cage), Spot-nosed Monkeys, Rhesus Monkeys, Stump-tailed Macaques and White-throated Capuchins. Visitors would love to tease the male Stump-tailed Macaque who would respond by throwing gravel and chewing his feet much to the delight of the people tormenting him. A while ago someone came into the zoo and told a young keeper there used to be Gorillas there. When told the only apes at the zoo had been the Lar Gibbons he stuck to his belief, so we think he must have been thinking of the Stump-tailed Macaques as the male was very powerfully built - not Gorilla-sized though! The three cages were converted into one and the original four what are now labelled as Pale-fronted Brown Capuchins arrived. These bred and there were seven in the cage at one time.
