Primates in Canadian Collections

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Hyak_II

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so what's the status of primates in Canadian zoological collections? Let's try and get a list amassed here. I'll start, other members feel free to add in of course, and let's get it filled!

Edmonton Valley Zoo

0.5 Callimico
2.1 Golden Lion Tamarin
0.3 Squirrel Monkey
1.1 Lar Gibbon
2.0 Black and White Ruffed Lemur
0.3 Ring Tailed Lemur
1.1 Mongoose Lemur

Discovery Wildlife Park

0.0.5? Japanese Macaque

Calgary Zoo

1.5 Western Lowland Gorilla
2.2.1 Eastern Black and White Colobus
2.0? Mandrill
1.3 Red Fronted Lemur
0.1? Black and White Ruffed Lemur
?.? Ring Tail Lemur
0.0.8? Japanese Macaque
 
Granby Zoo
  • Patas Monkey
  • Mantled Guereza
  • Mandrill
  • 2.0 Western Lowland Gorilla
  • Japanese Macaque
  • Goeldi's Monkey
  • Golden Lion Tamarin
  • Spider Monkey (can't remember exact species)
  • Emperor Tamarin
Zoo Sauvage de St-Félicien
  • Japanese macaques
  • Gelada baboons
Parc Safari
  • Japanese macaques
  • Common marmoset
Zoo Falardeau
  • Black-and-White Ruffed Lemur
  • White-faced capuchin
Miller Zoo
  • Squirrel Monkey
  • Black-and-White Ruffed Lemur
Fauna Foundation
  • Common chimpanzees
  • 1.1 Rhesus macaques
Toronto Zoo
  • Western lowland gorilla
  • Orangutan
  • Common marmoset
  • Pygmy marmoset
  • Golden lion tamarin
  • Black-handed spider monkey
  • Sumatran orangutan
  • White-handed gibbon
  • Olive baboon
  • Lion-tailed macaque
Story Book Farm Primate Sanctuary
  • 4.1 Ring-tailed lemur
  • 1.0 Squirrel monkey
  • 1.0 Black-handed Spider Monkey
  • 1.0 Black-tufted Capuchin
  • 0.1 White-capped Capuchin
  • 1.0 Olive Baboon
  • 3.1 Japanese macaques
  • 3.0 Crab-eating macaques
  • 0.2 Rhesus macaques
(Information from SBFPS's website Meet the Monkeys of Story Book Farm Primate Sanctuary)
African Lion Safari
  • Black-and-White Ruffed Lemur
  • Black Spider Monkey
  • Ringtailed lemur
  • White-handed Gibbon
  • Siamang
  • Black-handed spider monkey
  • Black lemur
  • Squirrel monkey
Assiniboine Park Zoo
  • Common Squirrel Monkey
  • Goeldi’s Marmoset
  • Cotton-top Tamarin
  • White-handed Gibbon
Magnetic Hill Zoo
  • Black-and-White Ruffed Lemur
  • Mantled Guereza
  • Common Marmoset
  • Cotton Top Tamarin
  • Mandrill
  • Ring-tailed Lemur
  • Squirrel monkey
  • White-handed gibbon
Oaklawn Farm Zoo
  • Squirrel monkey
  • Black-and-White Ruffed Lemur
  • Japanese macaque
  • Cotton top tamarin
  • White-handed gibbon
Let me know if I missed any species at any of them.
 
Here is what I can contribute. Might be off by some births and deaths.

Toronto
3. 5 Western Lowland Gorillas
2. 4 Sumatran Orangutans
1. 1 White Handed Gibbons
6. 6 Olive Baboons
0.2 Barbary Apes
2. 1.? Common Marmosets
2. 3. 1 Golden Lion Tamarins
1.1 White Faced Sakis
1. 2 Spider Monkeys
2. 2(3) Lion Tailed Macaques
5. 6 Ring Tailed Lemurs

Calgary
1.5 Western Lowland Gorilla
2.2.1 Guereza Colobus
1.1 Mandrills
1. 3 Black & White Ruffed Lemur
0. 5 Ring Tail Lemurs
1.6 Japanese Macaque

Granby
2.0 Western Lowland Gorillas with 2 more potentially on the way up from the US.
0.4 Central American Spider Monkey
1.1 White Faced Sakis
2,2 Guereza Colobus
1.1 Golden Lion Tamarins
3.10. 5 Japanese Macaques
0.3 Patas Monkey
2.4 Mandrills
5.0 Ring Tail Lemurs

Assiniboine
1. 2 White Handed Gibbons
3. 4. ? Common Squirrel Monkeys
1.1 Cotton Top Tamarin

Parc Safari
10.14.3, Japanese Macaques

Zoo Sauvage
4.8 Japanese Macaques

Edmonton
2. 0 Black & White Ruffed Lemurs
0. 3 Ring Tail Lemurs
1.1 Mongoose Lemur

Safari Niagara
1. 0 Cotton Top Tamarin
3. 0 DeBrazzas Monkeys

Riverview
1.8. ? Common Squirrel Monkeys
2.0 Black & White Ruffed Lemurs

Biodome
1.1 Cotton Top Tamarin

Magnetic Hill
2.0 Pygmy Marmosets
0.2 Cotton Top Tamarins
1.1 Black & White Ruffed Lemurs

Oaklawn
3. 2 Cotton Top Tamarin

Indian River Reptile Zoo
1.1 Cotton Top Tamarin

OASES (John Creviston)
2.1 Pygmy Marmosets
 
Sorry I don't have numbers

Oshawa Zoo
Black and White Ruffed Lemur
Ring Trailed Lemur
Tufted Capuchin ?

Jungle Cat World
Black and White Ruffed Lemur
Black Handed Spider Monkey
Black Spider Monkey
Lars Gibbon
Ring Trailed Lemur
Previously
Common Marmoset, DeBrazza's, Goeldi's Monkey, and Owl Monkey

Elmvale Zoo
Black and White Ruffed Lemur
Black Lemur
Japanese Macaque
Lars Gibbon
Mandrill
Ring Tailed Lemur
Tufted Capuchin
Previously Red Ruffed Lemurs, and Sulawesi and or Celebes Macaques

Safari Niagara
Barbary Ape
Goeldi's Monkey
Lars Gibbon
Siamang
Previously Agile Gibbons, Japanese Macaques, and Lion Tailed Macaques

Riverview Park and Zoo
Black and White Ruffed Lemur
Common Squirrel Monkey
Previously
Goeldi's Monkey and Colobus Monkey

Brantford Twin Valley Zoo
Black and White Ruffed Lemur
Common Marmoset
Lars Gibbon
Lion Tailed Macaque
Vervet Monkey
 
Alrighty time for some updates. I've included only facilities that I have complete or relatively complete species/numbers/sexes for.

British Columbia

Vancouver Aquarium
1.5 Callimico

Greater Vancouver Zoo
1.2 Ring Tail Lemur
2.3 Yellow Baboon
0.1 Squirrel Monkey
0.3 Geoffrey's Marmoset
1.0 Common Marmoset

John Creviston
2.1 Pygmy Marmoset

Alberta

Edmonton Valley Zoo
0.5 Callimico
2.1 Golden Lion Tamarin
0.3 Squirrel Monkey
1.1 Lar Gibbon
2.0 Black and White Ruffed Lemur
0.3 Ring Tailed Lemur
1.1 Mongoose Lemur

Discovery Wildlife Park
1.3 Japanese Macaque

Calgary Zoo
1.5 Western Lowland Gorilla
2.2.1 Guereza Colobus
1.1 Mandrill
1.3 Red Fronted Lemur
1.3 Black and White Ruffed Lemur
0.5 Ring Tail Lemur
1.6 Japanese Macaque

Saskatchewan

Border City Petting Zoo
0.2 Black and White Ruffed Lemur
1.0.1 Japanese Macaque

Saskatoon Forestry Farm Park and Zoo
1.3 Callimico

Manitoba

Assiniboine Park Zoo
1.2 Lar Gibbon
1.1 Cotton Top Tamarin
Callimico
Squirrel Monkey

Ontario

Toronto Zoo
3.5 Western Lowland Gorilla
2.4 Sumatran Orangutan
1.1 White Handed Gibbon
6. 6 Olive Baboon
0.2 Barbary Ape
2.1 Common Marmoset
2.3.1 Golden Lion Tamarin
1.1 White Faced Saki
1.2 Spider Monkeys
2.2(3) Lion Tailed Macaques
5.6 Ring Tailed Lemurs

African Lion Safari
2.1.1 Siamang
1.1.2 Lar Gibbon
Olive Baboon (at least 12-15 animals)
0.0.1 Robust Black Spider Monkey
0.0.1 Black Handed Spider Monkey
Squirrel Monkey
Black and White Ruffed Lemur
Ring Tail Lemur
1.1 Black Lemur

Safari Niagara
9.4 Siamang
5.3 Lar Gibbon
1.3 Agile Gibbon
3.0 Debrazza's Monkey
0.2? Brown lemur
Ring Tail Lemur
Black and White Ruffed Lemur
1.2 Barbary Ape
1.1? Callimico

Brantford Twin Valley Zoo
1.3.1 Lar Gibbon
Olive Baboon (at least 6-7 animals)
1.1 Lion Tailed Macaque
0.0.2 Black and White Ruffed Lemur
1.1.1 Ring Tail Lemur
1.1.4 Common Marmoset
1.0 Green Monkey

Killman Zoo
1.2 Olive Baboon
1.0 Celebes Macaque
2.3 Japanese Macaque
2.0 Black and White Ruffed Lemur
3.1 Ring Tail Lemur
0.1 Black Lemur

Bear Creek Exotic Animal Sanctuary
4.0 Ring Tail Lemur
1.0 Black Lemur
1.0 Black x Red Fronted Lemur
1.0 Owl Monkey
1.0 Japanese Macaque
1.0 Green Monkey

Story Book Farm Primate Sanctuary
4.1 Ring-tailed lemur
1.0 Squirrel monkey
1.0 Black-handed Spider Monkey
1.0 Black-tufted Capuchin
0.1 White-capped Capuchin
1.0 Olive Baboon
3.1 Japanese macaques
3.0 Crab-eating macaques
0.2 Rhesus macaques


Quebec

Granby Zoo
2.0 Western Lowland Gorilla
0.4 Central American Spider Monkey
1.1 White Faced Saki
2.2 Guereza Colobus
1.1 Golden Lion Tamarin
3.10.5 Japanese Macaque
0.3 Patas Monkey
2.4 Mandrill
5.0 Ring Tail Lemur

Zoo Sauvage de Saint-Félicien
4.8 Japanese Macaque
6.0 Gelada

Fauna Foundation
4.6 Chimpanzee
1.1 Japanese Macaque
 
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