Hello all! Its been awhile! But Ive been volunteering with some crazy monkeys the last few months. I was a surrogate mom to 2 red howler monkeys in Bolivia, Balu and Paya.
Check out some of my photography here.... https://www.flickr.com/photos/108216558@N08/
Thought i'd share a few 2 more...
Hi there,
I have designed a t-shirt that I am selling to raise money to donate to the Sumatran Orangutan Society. These guys do valuable work in Sumatra, saving and rehabilitaing Orangutans as well as tackling threats to their survival... such as habitat loss.
100 t-shirts need to be sold...
Hello all,
I'm new to this site, but have joined for a very specific reason.
I have a cousin who will be 18 in a few months. He is such a wonderful boy and I'd love to surprise him with an amazing present.
He loves all animals but, he really loves small primates like bush babies and slow...
I have seen the use of primate walk through exhibits in a few zoos. For instance Henry Doorly and Washington D.C. Zoos both have Golden Lion Tamarins have not separation between humans and people. I have also seen lemurs been used in this situation. Besides disease going from one primate to...
The Monkey Path in the South America Dome in Randers Tropical Zoo, Denmark. Here visitors can often see most of the free-ranging monkeys. There are 7 species: Pygmy marmoset, common marmoset, cotton-top tamarin, goldie's monkey, golden-headed lion tamarin, douroucouli and white-faced saki...
"The World of Primates" building with the outdoor enclosures. Here lives from the right to the left hamadryas baboons, ruffed lemurs, white-faced sakis and spider monkeys.
October 2008
Beijing Zoo's Golden Monkey House is a striking geodesic dome structure and houses all three species of snub-nosed langur: the golden (Rhinopithecus roxellana), black (R. bieti) and gray (R. brelichi). All are native to China and found nowhere else. Taken 19 Aug 2008.
*taken from Windows Live maps*
Going anti-clockwise:
1st island: Lion-tailed Macaque
2nd island: Mandrill
3rd island: Sulawesi Macaque
and the other enclosure which joins the house, is home to Columbian Black Spider Monkeys