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A wild Green Monkey in Barbados was sat nicely for a photo. I wonder what he was thinking about? Maybe bananas.
Orangutans are the most arboreal of the great apes and spend most of their time in trees. Their hair is typically reddish-brown, instead of the brown or black hair typical of chimpanzees and gorillas.
This is a family of Rhesus Macaque monkeys living at the famous Monkey temple (Swayambhunath ), Kathmandu ,Nepal. The numerous monkeys seemed to scrounge a living from the many tourists that visited this ,once marvellous , site. This hill-top temple was an essential place to visit ,when in Kathmandu . I was enchanted by its beauty & glorious spirituality when I was first there in 1996 ,returning twice to this magical place , since then. But most unfortunately the massive earthquake in April ,this year, caused very severe damage to this ancient site. . The pictures I saw of the awful devastation were absolutely heartbreaking .
Sock monkey, for, just like the lead in a Clint Eastwood spaghetti western, he has no name, hung from the window frame and stared at the drizzle gently falling on yet another dismal, damp Sunday (at the tail end of July fer chrissakes!) and resigned himself to the fact that English summer was, indeed, truly cr@p!
Well at least he had some bokeh for company...
The Dusky Leaf Monkey, Spectacled Langur, or Spectacled Leaf Monkey in Burgers Zoo, Arnhem, the Netherlands. The Dusky Leaf Monkey (Trachypithecus obscurus) is found in Bangladesh, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand.
The head-body length is 42 to 61 cm and the tail length 50 to 85 cm.
The monkey is are widely variable in color. Their upper parts may be any shade of brown, grey, or black, whereas the under parts, hind legs, and tail are paler. The skin on the face is dark grey, the chin and lips pinkish, and the eyes surrounded with a thick white ring.
The young are are bright yellow or orange.
The species occurs in a variety of habitats including coastal and riverine forests.
They are active in early morning and late afternoon when family groups of around 4 to 15 individuals may descend to clearings in the forest or to the river's edge to feed on young leaves and shoots. The overall, dusky leaf monkeys are quite social animals.
Eind september 2009 zijn er drie brillangoeren in het Aziatische deel, de Rimba, van Burgers Zoo in Arnhem gearriveerd. Een schenking van een Israëlische dierentuin. Er zijn welgeteld drie zoo's in Europa die deze soort hebben. Een niet alledaagse aap dus.
Om de brillangoer (Trachypithecus obscurus) uit Bangladesh, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand goed te kunnen beschrijven, zonder een foto te laten zien, moet je van goede huize komen. Daarom hierna een beschrijving uit "ZieZoo", een tweemaandelijkse uitgave van Burgers Zoo voor relaties en jaarkaarthouders.
Het zijn slanke apen met nogal een variabele kleur. Het varieert van elk soort bruin tot grijs en zwart. Hun poten en staart zijn dan weer lichter van kleur. Maar wat natuurlijk het meest opvalt is hun brilletje. Ze hebben namelijk een witte ring rond hun ogen. Daarnaast zijn hun lippen wit en/of vleeskleurig. Een opvallende verschijning dus. Zeker gezien het feit dat hun hoofdhaar eruit ziet alsof ze net uit bed zijn gekomen.
De kop-romp-lengte is 42 tot 61 centimeter en de staartlengte is 50 tot 85 cm.
De maag van de brillangoer bestaat , net als bij koeien, uit meerdere afdelingen als aanpassing aan het eten van moeilijk verteerbaar plantaardig materiaal.
Site Burgers Zoo in Dutch, English and German: www.burgerszoo.eu/
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Portrait of a Vervet monkey, Kruger national park, South Africa.
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Link to Cincinnati Zoo..............
Also a new group to join for anyone who has Ohio Zoo pictures!
www.flickr.com/groups/ohio_zoos/
Also check out Zoos Around the World group!
www.flickr.com/groups/zoos_around_the_world/
This was a difficult shot to get. The monkey was behind heavy mesh wire and had bad lighting..
Have a wonderful week everyone!
Range: Central Africa from Cameroon to Ethiopia and Tanzania
Habitat: Primary and secondary forests along river banks
Lifespan: 20 years in the wild, 29 years in captivity
Gestation: 5 to 6 months
Offspring: 1
Size: Length with tail, up to 62 inches; weight, up to 30 pounds
Diet: Leaves, buds, seeds, shoots, and occasionally fruit
Characteristics: Black and white Colobus monkeys have a long, black fur coat with a white stripe running down the sides of their backs to their tails. Their bushy tails, which often exceeds the length of their bodies, are black at the base and gradually becomes white. These animals live in territorial groups of seven to 11 members, including a single male, females and their young. Babies are all white at birth. Females in the group remain for life, males leave as they near sexual maturity. Troops maintain a territory, within which they communicate vocally to mark their territory and warn of danger. Colobus rarely descend to the ground.
I'm always trying to get as low to the ground as possible, and this youngster was walking on a little sand hill at the beach. I played around with these funny mammals for about 30 minutes and besides being eaten alive by sand flies I had lots of fun with them
🐒 At the top of the Rock of Gibraltar you will be able to see countless monkeys ruling as king of the rock, like this one overlooking the Gibraltar Harbor, to the coast of Spain! This troop or barrel of Barbary macaque monkeys is the only wild population of monkeys on the European continent. They are a thriving group of wild monkeys originally from the Atlas Mountains and the Rif Mountains of Morocco.
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