In this Associated Press photo provided by the San Francisco Zoo, Hasani, the 7-month-old infant western lowland gorilla, rides on the back of his surrogate mother at the San Francisco Zoo, as another member of the troop walks in the background on July 2. Over the last few months, the primate team has slowly introduced each of the five members of the Zoo's gorilla troop to Hasani.
A monkey entertains people by riding bike during a first Vietnam Minority Cultural Day celebration at the culture and tourism village of Vietnamese ethnic minority groups in Son Tay, Hanoi, Vietnam, on Sunday, April 19. The government has marked April 19 as the Cultural Day for Vietnamese Ethnic Groups and this year is the first time the celebration was held. Vietnam has more than 50 ethnic minority groups.(AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki)
Japanese macaques soak in a hot spring pool at Jigokudani Monkey Park in the mountains near Yamanouchi Town in Japan's Nagano Prefecture on Dec. 28, 2008. The area is most famous for its so-called "snow monkeys," wild monkeys indigenous to Japan.
This image provided by the San Diego Zoo shows the baby gorilla born there on Sept. 7.
Isalie, a baby orangutan is seen in the enclosure of Munich Zoo, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008. Isalie was born in the zoo in Hellabrunn on July 14, 2008.
A yellow-cheeked crested gibbon yawns in a cage at Cambodia's Phnom Tamau Zoo in Takeo province, about 28 miles south of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, last Friday. Unchecked development could threaten two rare monkey species, the yellow-cheeked crested gibbon and .black-shanked douc langurs, that were recently discovered in Cambodia's remote northeast, international researchers said Monday
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In this photo provided by the Wildlife Conservation Society, a baby gorilla shouts from atop its mother's back in the Republic of the Congo on July 31. Female gorillas produce on the average one baby about every five years. A new census conducted by WCS and the government of the Republic of the Congo tallied more than 125,000 western lowland gorillas in the northern part of the country. Previous estimates from the 1980s placed the entire population of western lowland gorillas, which occur in seven Central African nations, at less than 100,000.
A preserved monkey is shown on display in the lobby of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Crime Lab last week in Decatur, Ga. The shaved monkey was part of a 1953 UFO hoax in rural Cobb County.
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(We'll get back to cute monkeys next time.)
A young squirrel monkey is seen amongst adults at the Philadelphia Zoo in Philadelphia earlier this month. Squirrel monkeys are indigenous to northern South America.
Here's a list of some of the bigger events going on at the zoo this summer.
OK, it's been a while since we had an entry in this category....
These are two of my favorite photos of monkeys and cats together...
...That's all.
A western lowland gorilla munches on a monkey chow biscuit at the Chicago Zoological Society's Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Ill. Thanks to mounting research on wild animals' food needs, today's zoo staffers are trying new feeding tricks to keep their animals healthy and happy. The days of letting visitors throw marshmallows to the animals are mostly history at zoos around the country, replaced by a growing focus on diet and nutrition that parallels the nutrition craze in humans.
The top photo is a photo of Opus, a male Saki monkey at Prospect Park Zoo in New York. Saki monkeys are native to Brazil and other South American countries. While not an endangered species, sakis are vulnerable to the destruction of their habitats by humans.
In the bottom photo, Opus (right) gives a kiss to Winola.
A nine-month-old female Golden Snub-nosed monkey Mei Mei relaxes at the Yokohama zoological gardens Zoorasia, south of Tokyo, on Saturday.
