Apenheul (1st visit)

I visited a zoo called Apenheul for the 1st time this season (it opened it’s doors last weekend). It specializes in apes and monkeys. Apenheul opened in 1971 and was the first zoo in the world where monkeys could walk around freely in the forest and between the visitors. It started with just a few species, now it displays more than 30 different primates, among them bonobo, gorilla and orangutan. I have to go back a few times for the big apes, most of them were still inside because of cold weather conditions.

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Ring-tailed lemur at lunch break
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Squirrel monkey
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Baby Barbary Macaque

 

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Northern plains gray langur