Last time I was in the States prior to my visit this autumn was in 2003 and remember being told then that the Bronx only had two males left. But I thought they had then died out, I didn't know they had been sent to Singapore.
Thank you all for posting your comments. I can see that this could be a gibbon. i'm still a little skeptical but as more time goes on I can see. The contact has been made and then we can all see if it is or where it was.
Ok. First off I don't want to get in a fight with anyone and I hope there hasn't been one yet. This could be a proboscis or it could not be a proboscis. What I don't understand is why no one can believe anything they see on here. I could understand kinda, because you really want to know the facts but why can't you just have a little fun and say yah I can see that it could be. They are all the same photo. I will contact Denver Zoo to see if this was the proboscis monkey and its enclosure.
as Baldur said, no-one is here to start a fight, we're just giving you the facts. Here's a blown-up part of your picture showing the gibbon. You can see the chain that you took to be a tail, the white face-ring, the white feet, and the typical crouching gibbon posture.
Note also that several of the members who have posted here, myself included, have seen proboscis monkeys before and are well-acquainted with how they look
Hi Fossa, you need to understand that no one here doubts that Denver once had a Proboscis Monkey and we're not trying to burst your bubble. However, this photo definitely does NOT show a Proboscis Monkey. I have observed them at Singapore Zoo on countless occasions over the last decade and I would bet my last dollar that the primate in the photo is not a Proboscis Monkey.
Besides the obvious physical discrepancies, I don't think any zoo would be foolish enough to house a Proboscis Monkey in an enclosure with a moat barrier.
