ZooChat Challenge Europe 2017

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Well I might aswell add my few:

Amazon World, Isle of Wight - August 2017:

1) Grey Mouse Lemur (Microcebus Murinus)
2) Ring-Tailed Lemur (Lemur Catta)
3) Red-Ruffed Lemur (Varecia Rubra)
4) Red-Handed Tamarin (Saguinus Midas)
5) Goeldi's Marmoset (Callimico Goeldii)
6) Common Squirrel Monkey (Saimiri Sciureus)
7) Black-Capped Squirrel Monkey (Saimiri Boliviensis)
8) Grey-Legged Douroucouli (Aotus Lemurinus)
9) White-Faced Saki Monkey (Pithecia Pithecia)
10) Black Howler Monkey (Alouatta Caraya)

Monkey Haven, Isle of Wight - August 2017:

11) Common Marmoset (Callithrix Jacchus)
12) Cotton-Top Tamarin (Saguinus Oedipus)
13) Red-Bellied Tamarin (Saguinus Labiatus)
14) White-Throated Capuchin (Cebus Capucinus)
15) Grivet (Chlorocebus Aethiops)
16) Collared Mangabey (Cercocebus Torquatus)
17) Rhesus Macaque (Macaca Mulatta)
18) Barbary Macaque (Macaca Sylvanus)
19) Javan Langur (Trachypithecus Auratus)
20) Mantled Guereza (Colobus Guereza)
21) Red-Tailed Guenon (Cercopithecus Ascanius)
22) Lar Gibbon (Hylobates Lar)
23) Mueller's Bornean Gibbon (Hylobates Muelleri)
24) Siamang (Symphalangus Syndactylus)
25) Black-and-White-Ruffed Lemur (Varecia Variegata)

Isle of Wight Zoo - August 2017:

26) Black Lemur (Eulemur Macaco)
27) Mongoose Lemur (Eulemur Mongoz)
28) Black-Capped Capuchin (Sapajus Apella)

Monkey World, Dorset - August 2017

29) Geoffroy's Marmoset (Callithrix Geoffroyi)
30) Patas Monkey (Erythrocebus Patas)
31) Stump-Tailed Macaque (Macaca Arctoides)
32) Golden-Cheeked Gibbon (Nomascus Gabriellae)
33) Bornean Orangutan (Pongo Pygmaeus)
34) Sumatran Orangutan (Pongo Abelii)
35) Common Chimpanzee (Pan Troglodytes)

Pretty pleased with that so far! :)


Also, if we're noting hybrids then the Spider Monkeys at the Isle of Wight Zoo are also hybrids.
 
Sorry I'm late for this challenge. I've visited a few European zoos, so here is the list of primates I have seen.
Antwerp Zoo (July 8):
Eastern gorilla
Western gorilla
Owl-faced monkey
Golden-headed lion tamarin
Mandrill
Pygmy marmoset
Northern owl monkey
Goeldi's monkey
Chimpanzee
Geoffrey's marmoset
Colombian black spider monkey
Black-capped squirrel monkey
Pairi Daiza (July 9):
Cotton-top tamarin
Colobus monkey
Sulawesi crested macaque
Sumatran orangutan
Siamang
Common squirrel monkey (yes, there are at least two squirrel monkey species)
Koln Zoo (July 19):
Red-shanked douc langur
Yellow-breasted capuchin
Hamadryas baboon
Greater bamboo lemur
Blue-eyed black lemur
White-faced saki
Red howler monkey
Bonobo
Golden lion tamarin
Lar gibbon
Apenheul (July 20):
Lac Alaotra bamboo lemur
Black-and-white ruffed lemur
Crowned sifaka
Ring-tailed lemur
Crowned lemur
Black-and-gold howler monkey
Javan lutung
Bornean orangutan
Patas monkey
Woolly monkey
Collared mangabey
Northern white-cheeked gibbon
Hanuman langur
Barbary ape
Emperor tamarin
Silvery marmoset
Red-bellied lemur
Lion-tailed macaque
Pied tamarin
Coppery titi
White-faced capuchin
L'Hoest's monkey
Grey-handed night monkey
Black-tufted ear marmoset
Artis (July 22):
Black spider monkey
Japanese macaque
Red-ruffed lemur
Grey mouse lemur
Red-cheeked gibbon
Diana monkey
Red-bellied tamarin
58 primate species in total.
Well, that's about it for how many primates I've seen in Europe. Good luck to all!
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TheWalrus said:
Eastern gorilla
Western gorilla
Owl-faced monkey
Golden-headed lion tamarin
Mandrill
Pygmy marmoset
Northern owl monkey
Goeldi's monkey
Chimpanzee
Geoffrey's marmoset
Colombian black spider monkey
Black-capped squirrel monkey
Humboldt's night monkey
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You can't get away with counting the same species twice just by using a different name for it each time :p especially when you are counting the same *individuals* twice!
 
ShonenJake13 said:
Have updated my list to not include Geoffroy's spider monkey.

And after some time waiting, and a HUGE stroke of luck....

Howletts Wild Animal Park

110) Heck's macaque (Macaca hecki)
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Rather interestingly, another species offshow at Howletts that can be viewed from onshow if you know where to look for my next species.

It appears ZTL has failed to notice this, but according to a keeper there is one elderly female that lives with a female De Brazza’s in an enclosure offshow behind one of the New Gorillas gorillariums.

Howletts Wild Animal Park

111) Lesser spot-nosed monkey (Cercopithecus petaurista)
 
ShonenJake13 said:
It appears ZTL has failed to notice this, but according to a keeper there is one elderly female that lives with a female De Brazza’s in an enclosure offshow behind one of the New Gorillas gorillariums.
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Some idiot deleted that ZTL entry within the last week - as it was still there a week ago today when I received the same information.

However, I feel the need to ask you whether you actually *saw* the individual in question, given your wording suggests you did not ;) :p unfortunately I failed to spot it when I tried to find it....
 
TeaLovingDave said:
Some idiot deleted that ZTL entry within the last week - as it was still there a week ago today when I received the same information.

However, I feel the need to ask you whether you actually *saw* the individual in question, given your wording suggests you did not ;) :p unfortunately I failed to spot it when I tried to find it....
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Spotted the De Brazza’s first, and watched her for a while before spotting the spot-nosed (fun phrase) as well. She hobbled from the top of their enclosure down to the middle left to watch a keeper walking into their indoors with some food, and then both guenons entered the indoors as well.

Unless my eyes were completely deceiving me that’s the scene I saw unfold in the enclosure behind Kifu’s gorillarium... :p
 
Fair enough :p it was the use of the phrase "according to a keeper" which gave the impression you hadn't actually seen this for yourself!
 
In regards to the Monkey World Spider Monkeys, I emailed the park asking about what species they were.

Got this rather short response:


"The spider monkeys were captive bred at a UK zoo and then hand reared and cared for privately by their former keepers. They are Geoffroy’s, or black-handed (Ateles geoffroyi) spider monkeys."

So according to whoever wrote this email, they're all Geoffroyi. Is this likely to be reliable info?
 
Fresco3 said:
In regards to the Monkey World Spider Monkeys, I emailed the park asking about what species they were.

Got this rather short response:


"The spider monkeys were captive bred at a UK zoo and then hand reared and cared for privately by their former keepers. They are Geoffroy’s, or black-handed (Ateles geoffroyi) spider monkeys."

So according to whoever wrote this email, they're all Geoffroyi. Is this likely to be reliable info?
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Nope. They list all their capuchins as S.apella when there are clearly some individuals that could easily be S.nigritus and S.libidinosus. Also, if they aren’t genetically testing their chimps, then I doubt they’ll be genetically testing their monkeys.
 
Fresco3 said:
In regards to the Monkey World Spider Monkeys, I emailed the park asking about what species they were.

Got this rather short response:


"The spider monkeys were captive bred at a UK zoo and then hand reared and cared for privately by their former keepers. They are Geoffroy’s, or black-handed (Ateles geoffroyi) spider monkeys."

So according to whoever wrote this email, they're all Geoffroyi. Is this likely to be reliable info?
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in short, no.

Only one of their spider monkeys looks anything like a geoffroyi. The other two are definitely not. The animals were all bred at Cotswolds which had a mixed group (of two species), which was started in 1969 apparently.

I'd imagine if you asked Monkey World about their woolly monkeys they would tell you they're all pure Humboldt's as well...
 
Chlidonias said:
in short, no.

Only one of their spider monkeys looks anything like a geoffroyi. The other two are definitely not. The animals were all bred at Cotswolds which had a mixed group (of two species), which was started in 1969 apparently.

I'd imagine if you asked Monkey World about their woolly monkeys they would tell you they're all pure Humboldt's as well...
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None of the Spider Monkeys at Monkeyworld were ever kept at CWP!
 
zoogiraffe said:
Sorry no idea but it wasn't CWP
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no idea ... but it wasn't Cotswold?

The three spider monkeys came to Monkey World from a rescue centre called Secret World, who had got them in 2003 from a couple who had hand-reared them, after they had been abandoned by their mothers at Cotswold Wildlife Park.
 
Chlidonias said:
no idea ... but it wasn't Cotswold?

The three spider monkeys came to Monkey World from a rescue centre called Secret World, who had got them in 2003 from a couple who had hand-reared them, after they had been abandoned by their mothers at Cotswold Wildlife Park.
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Now that is interesting, I will have to do some digging as I wasn't aware of any rejected births at CWP in 2003. But I am fully aware of Secret World the less said about that place the better. Given the very dubious way they have acquired animals .It is very possible that they could have come from elsewhere and CWP name is being used to cover where they did come from.
 
zoogiraffe said:
Now that is interesting, I will have to do some digging as I wasn't aware of any rejected births at CWP in 2003. But I am fully aware of Secret World the less said about that place the better. Given the very dubious way they have acquired animals .It is very possible that they could have come from elsewhere and CWP name is being used to cover where they did come from.
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no, I may have phrased that badly. Secret World received the monkeys in 2003. They had been kept prior to that for years by the couple who hand-raised them since birth.
 
Hickory

Also, if you click ''monkeys' then you'll see Flint, Pumpkin and even Jethro - the White-Faced Saki that died recently at MW.

Also, it appears that one wasn't a rejected birth. It's mother was put to sleep when it was 2 months old.
 
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