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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.
Wales Ape and Monkey Sanctuary is an animal sanctuary between Caehopkin and Abercraf in Powys, Wales. It became the Wales Ape & Monkey Sanctuary in December 2008, being previously known as Cefn-yr-Erw Primate Sanctuary. [1] The sanctuary is owned and operated by husband and wife Graham and Jan Garen. Wales Ape and Monkey Sanctuary ...
Pets at Home, Westgate Retail Park, Wakefield, West Yorkshire. (2009) Pets at Home in more recent branding in Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Pets at Home Group PLC (sometimes shortened to Pets) is a British retailer selling pets (not limited to rabbits, rodents and fish), pet food, toys, bedding and medication.
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
The Jim Cronin Memorial Fund for Primate Welfare and Conservation was set up for the purpose of continuing Cronin's legacy and for the support of primate conservation and welfare all over the world. It is a UK-registered charity, number 1126939, and is sponsored by Monkey World.
The old Monkey Temple, resembling a southern Asian temple, was home to an exhibit called "Smarty plants", an interactive exhibit which shows how plants use and manipulate animals to survive. The zoo also has breeding firsts, including the first black rhino born in Britain in 1958, the first squirrel monkey born in captivity in 1953 and the ...
Twycross Zoo has become known for breeding primates and has recorded first UK births for thirteen species including the bonobo, siamang, agile gibbon and woolly monkey, contributing to numerous conservation breeding programmes. In 2000, Badham and Evans co-wrote Molly's Zoo, a book telling the story of the zoo's history. [4]
Members of this family are called cercopithecoids, or Old World monkeys, and include baboons, colobuses, guenons, lutungs, macaques, and other types of monkeys. Cercopithecoidea contains only a single family, Cercopithecidae , and includes nearly half of the species in the suborder Haplorhini , itself one of two suborders in the order Primates.