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Monkey Forest,
Trentham Gardens - Stoke on Trent
Home to 2 groups of Barbary Macaques (Macaca sylvanus)
These are the only species of Macaque that live outside of Asia, being native to Morocco and Algeria, - and also the only non-human species of primate found in Europe, as they also live on Gibraltar.
My wife's favorite shot in the series. I'm not completely satisfied with it because of the flash in the monkey's eyes, but it does show a lot of detail in his face (I think this one is the male).
A Monkey looking sad in its enclosure at Edinburgh Zoo. I can't remember the breed, so if anyone knows then please leave a comment
The Mantled Howler (Alouatta palliata), or Golden-mantled Howling Monkey, is a species of howler monkey, a type of New World monkey, from Central and South America. It is one of the monkey species most often seen and heard in the wild in Central America. It takes its "mantled" name from the long guard hairs on its sides.
Some time ago, I started a website called "Haiku du Jour" ( www.haikudujour.com/ ) as a way of presenting funny, topical, or classic subject matter in a unique way. I abandoned it after a couple of months, for a couple of reasons.
Oddly, the traffic on the site has not declined much at all. Which means it was never very far above the minimum traffic you get from indexing bots, Google and Yahoo etc., and a few search results.
This is a snapshot of June's stats for haikudujour.com, showing the top 10 search strings which resulted in visits to my site.
THERE WAS ONLY EVER ONE FRIKKEN POST ABOUT MONKEYS.
LOL!! What a legacy... B-)
Monkey Forest,
Trentham Gardens - Stoke on Trent
Home to 2 groups of Barbary Macaques (Macaca sylvanus)
These are the only species of Macaque that live outside of Asia, being native to Morocco and Algeria, - and also the only non-human species of primate found in Europe, as they also live on Gibraltar.
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From Wikipedia,
The black-tufted marmoset (Callithrix penicillata), also known as Mico-estrela in Portuguese, is a species of New World monkey that lives primarily in the Neo-tropical gallery forests of the Brazilian Central Plateau. It ranges from Bahia to Paraná,[3] and as far inland as Goiás, between 14 and 25 degrees south of the equator, and can commonly be seen in the City of Rio de Janeiro. This marmoset typically resides in rainforests, living an arboreal life high in the trees, but below the canopy. They are only rarely spotted near the ground.
New World monkeys are small to mid-sized primates, ranging from the pygmy marmoset (the world's smallest monkey), at 14 to 16 cm (5.5 to 6.3 in) and a weight of 120 to 190 grams (4.2 to 6.7 oz), to the southern muriqui, at 55 to 70 cm (22 to 28 in) and a weight of 12 to 15 kg (26 to 33 lb). New World monkeys differ slightly from Old World monkeys in several aspects. The most prominent phenotypic distinction is the nose, which is the feature used most commonly to distinguish between the two groups. The clade for the New World monkeys, Platyrrhini, means "flat nosed". The noses of New World monkeys are flatter than the narrow noses of the Old World monkeys, and have side-facing nostrils. New World monkeys are the only monkeys with prehensile tails—in comparison with the shorter, non-grasping tails of the anthropoids of the Old World.