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The Monkey Sanctuary was founded in 1964 by Len Williams, father of classical guitarist John Williams, [4] [5] as a cooperative to care for rescued woolly monkeys.Based in Looe, Cornwall, England, it is home to woolly monkeys descended from the original residents, a growing number of capuchin monkeys rescued from the British pet trade [3] and a small group of rescued Barbary macaques.
Bippy, a small monkey that accompanies Timmy Turner in the first Fairly Oddparents movie Abra-Catastrophe; Boots is the pet explorer in Dora the Explorer; Chim-Chim is the pet monkey of Speed Racer and his family; Mojo was Homer Simpson's helper monkey who eventually adopts Homer's unhealthy lifestyle and becomes very obese
Monkey World works with foreign governments to stop the illegal smuggling of wild primates. In January 2008 the group performed what The Guardian called "the world's biggest rescue mission of its kind," when it saved 88 capuchin monkeys from a laboratory in Santiago , Chile , where some of the animals had been kept in solitary cages for up to ...
The guenons (UK: / ɡ ə ˈ n ɒ n z /, US: / ˈ ɡ w ɛ n. ə n z /) are Old World monkeys of the genus Cercopithecus (/ ˌ s ɜːr k ə ˈ p ɪ θ ə k ə s /).Not all members of this genus have the word "guenon" in their common names; also, because of changes in scientific classification, some monkeys in other genera may have common names that include the word "guenon".
The population of the Barbary macaques in Gibraltar is the only one outside Northern Africa and the only population of wild monkeys in Europe. Barbary macaques were once widely distributed in Europe, as far north as England, from the Early Pliocene ( Zanclean ) to the Late Pleistocene , as recently as 85-40,000 years ago. [ 8 ]
Harold Nathan Braunhut (March 31, 1926 – November 28, 2003), also known as Harold von Braunhut, was an American mail-order marketer and inventor most famous as the creator and seller of both the Amazing Sea-Monkeys and the X-ray specs, [1] along with many other novelty products marketed towards children, often advertised in comic books.
The Zanzibar red colobus (Piliocolobus kirkii) is a species of red colobus monkey endemic to Unguja, the main island of the Zanzibar Archipelago, off the coast of Tanzania.It is also known as Kirk's red colobus after Sir John Kirk, the British Resident of Zanzibar who first brought it to the attention of zoological science.
Night monkeys, also known as owl monkeys or douroucoulis [2] (/ d uː r uː ˈ k uː l i z /), are nocturnal New World monkeys of the genus Aotus, the only member of the family Aotidae (/ eɪ ˈ ɒ t ɪ d iː /). The genus comprises eleven species which are found across Panama and much of South America in primary and secondary forests, tropical ...