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Geoffroy’s tamarin

Geoffroy’s Tamarin: A Comprehensive Guide Geoffroy’s tamarins are small primates native to the forests of South America. They are known for their distinctive, bright fur and their playful, energetic behavior. In recent years, they have become…

Geoffroy’s Tamarin

Geoffroy’s tamarin (Saguinus geoffroyi), also known as the Panamanian, red-crested or rufous-naped tamarin (locally called mono titi). Image taken in Altos del Maria Panama. Here seen having lunch as they like the fruit of the cecropia…

Mantled Howler Monkey

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…

Geoffroy’s tamarin (Saguinus geoffroyi)

Geoffroy’s tamarin (Saguinus geoffroyi), also known as the Panamanian, red-crested or rufous-naped tamarin. Image taken in Altos del Maria Panama.

Geoffroy’s tamarin (Saguinus geoffroyi)

Geoffroy’s tamarin (Saguinus geoffroyi), also known as the Panamanian, red-crested or rufous-naped tamarin. Image taken in Panama.

Mantled howler monkey (Alouatta palliata)

These images of the Mantled howler monkeys (Alouatta palliata) where taken in the area of the San Lorenzo National Park near Colon, Panama.

Geoffroy’s tamarin

Geoffroy’s tamarin (Saguinus geoffroyi), also known as the Panamanian, red-crested or rufous-naped tamarin, is a tamarin, a type of small monkey, found in Panama and Colombia. The attached images have been taken in the Summit gardens…

Gelada

The gelada (Theropithecus gelada), also known as the gelada baboon and bleeding-heart baboon, is a species of Old World monkey found only in the Ethiopian Highlands, with large populations in the Semien Mountains.

Spider monkey

Spider monkey are found in tropical forests of Central and South America, from southern Mexico to Brazil. The genus contains seven species, all of which are under threat; the black-headed spider monkey, and brown spider monkey…

Capuchin monkey

Capuchin monkeys – The word capuchin derives from a group of friars named the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, an offshoot from the Franciscans, who wear brown robes with large hoods covering their heads. When explorers…

Golden-mantled howling monkey

Squirrel Monkey

Squirrel monkeys live in the tropical forests of Central and South America in the canopy layer.

Barbary Macaques in Gibraltar

The Barbary macaque population in Gibraltar is the only wild monkey population in the European continent, and, unlike that of North Africa, it is thriving. At present, some 300 animals in five troops occupy the area…