free ranging primates in EU

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fuscicollis

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Dear all,

We are asked by our authority to give a list of european institutions with free ranging primate.

This is not about walk-though enclosures and greenhouses but sedentary primates allowed to roam freely in a zoo.

your experience in this matter if of great importance,
would you please give me :
  • the name of the zoo
  • the country
  • species involved


    I thank you all in advance for your help and cooperation.

    Luc
 
Dear Luc,


Maybe you can contact Apenheul, Apeldoorn, Netherlands. They have several free roaming species in de Zoo.
 
hi,
all primates in apenheul which are in contact with the public are on islands, so they are in a kind of walk-though enclosure.

What I am looking for is zoos with really free primates such as Emperor tamarins in Marwell or silvery marmosets in jersey.

thanks
Luc
 
Trentham Monkey Forest in the UK have about 120 Barbary macaques in something like 60 acres of natural woodland. Hope this helps.
 
I know that Copenhagen Zoo a few years back had their ring-tailed lemurs running free through the zoo for a few hours a day. It worked for a few years in which the lemurs stayed in the zoo and the nearby public park but had to be stopped when they started venturing out to public roads.

Odense Zoo also slowed their lemurs to escape and run wild in the zoo until they started to leave the zoo and cause traffic problems. Odense also used to have their emperor tamarins free ranging in the zoo.

You could try contacting the zoos to find out how the experiments went:

Copenhagen Zoo
Zoologisk Have
Roskildevej 38
Postboks 7
DK 2000 Frederiksberg
Denmark
Telephone: +45 72 200 200
E-mail: zoo@zoo.dk

Odense Zoo
Sdr. Boulevard 306
5000 Odense C
Denmark
Telephone: +45 6611 1360
E-mail: odensezoo@odensezoo.dk

I hope this helps
 
@Pertinax, that is still there, but they are on islands, it are very big islands... All those free-contact zones still excist. But none of the monkey species in Apenheul has access to the total zoo...
 
South Lakes in the UK has ring tail lemur troops which seem to have free range of certain areas in the park. Does this count?
 
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Pied Tamarins at Birmingham Nature Centre
Silvery Marmoset at Whipsnade Zoo

Both in the United Kingdom
 
There were some very small primates at Woburn (or one of the places I went last year) - marmosets or tamarins I think which were 'free' but I don't think they actually went anywhere at all!
 
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In Sweden Furuvik Zoo, Ystands Djurpark and Fågelparken Helsingborg all keep Common Marmosets completely free ranging. Parken Zoo keeps Cotton-Top tamarins roaming free.
 
My worry is that people think it means free to a good (or not so good) home! I wonder how many times they lose some, or are they quick or sharp teethed enough to not be caught?
 
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There is japanese macaque roaming freely OUTSIDE of its original zoo for some time (this is is second winter I think. Had a buddy which made it about 100km further but was caught already. That's why I asked, if escapees count.

(single male, no females, no invasive species being created, don't worry)
 
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