By Carl H. Peterson Copyright 2003

1. Baby Monkey Clings onto Its Mother as They Swim at Kyoto Zoo
2. Senegalese Bush Baby
3. Senegalese Bush Baby
4. Chimpanzee - adult male
5. Cotton-top Tamarin
6. Chimpanzee
7. Cotton-top Tamarin
8. Cotton-top Tamarin
9. Emperor Tamarin - native of South America
10. Francois Leaf monkey
11. Patas Monkey - adult male
12. Orangutan - rusty
13. Patas Monkeys - mother and infant
14. Very funny lookin huh!
15. Big eyed monkey!
16. Squirrels are new world monkeys and they live in Central and South America. Squirrel babies are usually born at the end of the summer (August-Sept.). They weight between 1-2 Ibs and are approximately 12" in height. They are sexually mature by \-lA yrs old and their gestation is 51A months giving birth to only one offspring. Their life span is 20 years
17. Capuchins are new world monkeys.
18. Black Cap Capuchin baby
19. Black Cap Capuchin - young adult
20. Black and White Capuchin baby girls
21. Black and White adult capuchin
22. Vervet Guenons are old world monkeys. They live in South and East Africa. Their gestation is 5 1A months giving birth to only one offspring at a time. The skin on their face is cream colored when born and turns black by 6 months old. Their life span is approximately 40 years. Their weight ranges from 10-15 Ibs and they grow 16-22" in height (silting). Females are generally smaller than males. They sexually mature at 4-5 years old.
23. Vervet Guenons
24. Pigtail Macaque Baby
25. Rhesus Macaque Baby
26. Baby Macaque
27. Snow Macaque Baby
28. Young Macaque
29. Marmosets and Tamarins are the smallest primates
30. Mangabeys are found all across tropical central Africa.
31. yellow baby monkey with its mother
32. Squirrel monkeys are becoming an important symbol for wildlife in Costa Rica.
33. Their forest habitat is being destroyed at an alarming rate by agribusiness, including the raising of crops such as palm oil trees and bananas.
34. The squirrel monkeys of Costa Rica bring a special delight for my forest guide. Sue Boinski, a professor of anthropology and comparative medicine at the University of Florida.
35. Though squirrel monkeys are increasingly rare, such encounters with them in Costa Rica are not unusual.
36. Tourism and farming have negatively affected Costa Rica's fragile and isolated population of squirrel monkeys.
37. A young squirrel monkey sucks its thumb while hanging onto a liana vine.
38. An adept hunter, a squirrel monkey scans its surroundings for camouflaged insects.
39. These long-tailed platyrhine monkeys are very lovely and peculiar having a white "mask" on their faces that makes one recollect death's head immediately.
40. The capuchin is the most familiar New World monkey, largely because of its winning way of soliciting coins for organ-grinders.
41. The douroucouli, or owl (night) monkey belongs to the Celibdae family together with the capuchin and squirrel monkeys.
42. Rhesus Monkey
43. These are extremely active, intelligent animals with fantastic climbing ability.
44. Though varying in coloration, squirrel monkeys have a distinctive look, with a white mask around the eyes and a black muzzle.
45. Squirrel monkeys are diurnal and arboreal.
46. Northern South America to Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Brazil. Lives in virgin and secondary forests and in cultivated areas, usually along rivers and streams
47. Many monkeys have opposable thumbs and opposable big toes, which can be closed against the other fingers or toes to create a tight grip.
48. Monkeys have traditionally been hunted for food in tropical areas, but today they face a much more serious threat through the loss of their habitat, deforestation.
49. The head and body length of a spider monkey is 15 to 25 inches and the tail is around 20 to 35 inches.
50. The rhesus monkey is found throughout India and Nepal, eastern Afghanistan, and northeastern China and Indochina, and held sacred by the Hindus.
51. Gold monkey in tree
52. Mother gorilla with baby gorilla