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Apenheul Primate Park is a zoo in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. It specializes in apes and monkeys. It opened in 1971 and was the first zoo in the world where monkeys could walk around freely in the forest and between the visitors. It started with just a few species, now it displays more than 30 different primates, among them bonobo, gorilla and ...
History. La Vallée des Singes was founded by Wim Mager who had previously founded the Apenheul Primate Park in the Netherlands in 1971, which is the first free-roaming primate park in the world. The park, well known for its three species of great ape, first obtained gorillas in 1998, and first obtained its chimpanzees from the TNO in 2004.
Kiyomasa (male) Annie (female) Weight. 190 kg (418 lb) Height. 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) Shabani (born 20 October 1996) is a male western lowland gorilla, born at the Apenheul Primate Park in the Netherlands, raised in Australia and currently residing at the Higashiyama Zoo in Nagoya, Japan. [1] He gained publicity in 2007 at Higashiyama Zoo when he ...
Wim Mager. Wim Mager (26 September 1940 in Rotterdam – 23 March 2008 in Silvolde) was a Dutch photographer who is mainly known for founding the Apenheul Primate Park near Apeldoorn of which he was the director until 1997. When he had found a successor he moved to France and started a similar primate park near Poitiers called La Vallée des ...
Barbary macaques in Gibraltar. Coordinates: 36.132248°N 5.348875°W. This young Barbary macaque is part of a group of 25 to 70 individuals from several different monkey families in Gibraltar. Originally from the Atlas Mountains and the Rif Mountains of Morocco, the Barbary macaque population in Gibraltar is the only wild monkey population on ...
Joao, aged 81 years, 262 days, is the oldest chimpanzee ever; oldest male chimpanzee ever; and current oldest living chimpanzee. The oldest female chimpanzee ever was Little Mama, who reached to the final age of 80 years, 317 days. The oldest living female chimpanzee is Susie, aged 70 years, 262 days. This list is currently under construction ...
Zoos by country. Parks in the Netherlands. Gardens in the Netherlands. Entertainment venues in the Netherlands. Nature conservation in the Netherlands. Animal welfare organisations based in the Netherlands. Zoos in Europe by country. Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata.
Bonobo. The bonobo (/ bəˈnoʊboʊ, ˈbɒnəboʊ /; Pan paniscus), also historically called the pygmy chimpanzee (less often the dwarf chimpanzee or gracile chimpanzee), is an endangered great ape and one of the two species making up the genus Pan (the other being the common chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes). [4]