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monkey cages

Really nasty cages, concrete and bars and wire with nothing much inside for the monkeys to do. Home to a grossly-overweight Assamese macaque, crab-eating macaques, hamadryas and yellow baboons, mandrills, patas monkeys and squirrel monkeys. I did not see the mandrill or crab-eating macaque but the signs were there.

All of them were being fed by the visitors (hence the fatty macaque).

October 2013
Really nasty cages, concrete and bars and wire with nothing much inside for the monkeys to do. Home to a grossly-overweight Assamese macaque, crab-eating macaques, hamadryas and yellow baboons, mandrills, patas monkeys and squirrel monkeys. I did not see the mandrill or crab-eating macaque but the signs were there.

All of them were being fed by the visitors (hence the fatty macaque).

October 2013
 
This photo takes us all back to the dark ages of zoos, when row after row would be stuffed to the gills with various taxonomically-related species. I'm genuinely surprised that larger primates such as baboons are found here, and I'm sure that many of them subsist on a diet of bread, popcorn, candy, etc, and one can only guess at how fat some of the specimens become in these cages.
 

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