The truful answer to that 1 is I don't know. But I have heard that they kept most of their primates in the early years near the old orangutan enclosure.
During that time they had newly got a pair of mandrills, de brazas monkeys and an owl-faced monkey. Presumeably they lived in here. In a very small (1 page) brochure I have from 1967 they say they have a "host of monkeys".
IF THERE IS ANYONE THAT CAN REMEMBER THIS AT ALL THEN PLEASE SAY!!
obviously i cant remember being 15 but i can tell you that this was indeed near the old Orangutan House near enough on the site of the new mixed walkthrough enclosure
The original lay out of colchester zoo was that you payed at the main gate in 'booths' and the car park was roughly in the same place as now!
In front of Stanway hall was all grass (for picnics) where the play equipment is now with enclosures around the edges with various accesses to the car park!
Where the entrance is now there was monkey enclosures I am sure?? Its hard to envisage the layout and get your bearings!
Ok looks more like it was where Rajang old enclosure is!
List of the 'Monkeys'
The Chimpanzees
The Talapoins
The Gibbons
The Baboons
Moustached Guenon
Moor Macacques
Celebes Ape
Stump Tail Ape
Sykes Monkey (also known as white-throated Guenon)
Debrazza Monkey
Lion-Tailed Wanderoo (also known as purple faced Langur)
Only shows on the map the new monkey house then a smaller one behind it for monkey and birds etc!!
Ok looks more like it was where Rajang old enclosure is!
List of the 'Monkeys'
The Chimpanzees
The Talapoins
The Gibbons
The Baboons
Moustached Guenon
Moor Macacques
Celebes Ape
Stump Tail Ape
Sykes Monkey (also known as white-throated Guenon)
Debrazza Monkey
Lion-Tailed Wanderoo (also known as purple faced Langur)
Only shows on the map the new monkey house then a smaller one behind it for monkey and birds etc!!
Thank you very much Karen for that list. the Chimpanzees (listed as monkeys) would almost certainly have been the 2 on my photograph of which I've psoted. I think they're first Orangutans arrived very soon after this.
I've returned to the libary. I saw that this was part of a short booklet all reprinted from the "COLchester express". From 1967 although some photos were 1966.
They also kept at this time:
Wooly monkeys
Black spider monkeys (a male, a female and a new baby)
Lion tailed macaques
another asain monkey called "ape" not a rhesus maquaque it said but what???
