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.

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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.

For more, check out this story.

(We'll get back to cute monkeys next time.)

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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A nine-month-old female Golden Snub-nosed monkey Mei Mei relaxes at the Yokohama zoological gardens Zoorasia, south of Tokyo, on Saturday.

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Ah Meng, the oldest Sumatran orangutan in captivity, died at age 48 at the Singapore Zoo earlier this month.

For decades, Ah Meng met celebrities and starred as a poster girl for Singapore's tourism campaign.

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In this photo provided by the San Francisco Zoo, a chimpanzee looks away from her Christmas present, a gift-wrapped box with favorite chimp treats on Thursday.

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Charly, an orangutan, eats his birthday cake at the zoo in Frankfurt, Germany, on Thursday. Charly, who is father of at least 18 orangutans in various zoos all over the world, was celebrating his 50th birthday.

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An orangutan hangs on at an enclosure at National Zoo in Kuala Lumpur today. An Australian investment firm announced that it would spend about $10 million in an agreement with authorities in Malaysia to protect more than 74,130 acres of forests that are home to orangutans, pygmy elephants and other endangered species.

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In this image released by the San Diego Zoo, a zoo worker cares for two of the worlds most critically endangered great apes, called bonobos at the San Diego Zoo's Children Zoo nursery in San Diego. With wild populations being decimated at alarming rates in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the recent birth of a male infant named Tutapenda, left, on Oct. 29 is a significant milestone for conservation efforts. He joins his 2-month-old half-sister Mali who is also being hand-raised due to medical complications at birth.

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Rapunzel, 23, carries her 2-year-old baby girl, Glenda, on her back during the unveiling of the Los Angeles Zoo's new Camp Gorilla Reserve in Los Angeles on Thursday Nov. 8,2007. Camp Gorilla Reserve closely resembles the gorilla's native West African environment with trees, brush, flowers and waterfalls.

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A 3-week-old Patas Monkey looks at his mother as he is introduced to the public for the first time in the Budapest Zoo in Budapest, Hungary, last week. (Associated Press photo)

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Anelya Hendricks of Greenville, S.C., watches as her monkey, named Gilligan T. Monkey, rides George the dog at the Arkansas State Fairgrounds in Little Rock, Ark., on Friday. (Associated Press photo)

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I'm not sure there are words for this photo. Anyone have any caption ideas? E-mail me.

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In this Associated Press photo, a monkey accepts bread offered by a passenger on a bus at the Jammu-Srinagar highway in Nandani, about 18 miles from Jammu, India, last week. Frequent mishaps are experienced on the highway due to the presence of a large number of the simians, assembled to be fed by passengers disregarding a ban imposed by the wildlife protection department.

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In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency late last month, two squirrel monkeys interact while carrying their babies at the Wildlife Zoo in Hefei, the capital of east China's Anhui Province.

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Students must share the road with monkeys on their walk to school in the Chiryai village in India this past Saturday. The village, once considered a model village in Udhampur district, has been facing monkey menace for several years, leading to a mass migration of 70 percent of the families. Students in the school often have to confront the monkeys to pursue their studies.

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In this Associated Press photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a monkey carries its baby in a swimming pool in the Nanwan Natural Reserve, Lingshui County, south China's Hainan Province. Nanwan, China's first natural reserve aimed to protect macaques, has become not only the harbor of around 2,000 macaques but also one of the favorite resorts for tourists in Hainan. Owing to the hot weather in the island province, monkeys in the reserve have learned to enjoy themselves in swimming pools.