Monkey World Ape Resuce Centre » Monkey World

08-04-2008

Do you think any offspring from the golden cheeked gibbons at Monkeyworld will be sent to other zoos for breeding or will they be kept at Monkeyworld and mates be sourced to come to them? The same with the orangs born at the park and also the ones sent to the park to learn how to be an orang. Will they stay or will they be allowed to leave for pastures new when the times right?

08-04-2008

Hopefully with the orangutans sent to the park from other collection come under the breeding programme co-ordinator and so will have to go along with there recomendations if they lie outside of monkey world.

I can see them wanting to keep the gibbons and orangutans they have taken from the rescue centre as they might not belong to them?

I hope they start to breed more gibbons, I know they had a few that were not sexual mature but they have only had 2 success from all the rescues gibbons!

08-04-2008

I'm sure the ones sent from other zoos will probably go but by keeping the infants born from the rescued animals they are denying a chance of bringing new genes into the captive breeding programmes. With all the rescues they do surely they'd prefer to give a home to a rescued animal rather than building an enclosure for an animal already safe from any harm at their park.

08-04-2008

What the heck is a Golden Cheeked Gibbon?
(Got a scientific name for it, please?)

08-04-2008

According to the monkey world website their scientific name is Hylobates gabriellae

09-04-2008

That is a really impressive nucleus for a potential breeding group, hopefully they will become for golden-cheeked gibbons what howletts is for Javan grey gibbons.

09-04-2008

regarding the orangutans
the two that are there that dont belong to monkeyworld,Lingga and Joly will probbaly go back to where they came from once they have learned how to be an orangutan.

11-04-2008

Yes lingga and joly are currently on loan monkey world dose not own them ! they only look after babies like stuggart (sp) with the gorrilas . However the other orangutans belong to them !

11-04-2008

One of their female woolly monkys born at the park moved to twycross so I would say theres a good chance species like gibbons may be moved off as well!

11-04-2008

Peanut,Pung-Yo and Tien are moving to vietnam this yr to live in the new centre

11-04-2008

Wow! Do you know why this pairing was choosen?

11-04-2008

its because they wree the first to have a baby.And they wanna give them a more natural place,cos tht is where they would have been snatched frm in the wild.
The place is due 2 be opened in the summer.

14-04-2008

Could be my misunderstanding but why are they sending orang-utan's over to (non-native) Vietnam when there's ton's of local primate species waiting to be rescued (and bred). It seems to me they'll be occupying space the center would need for other endangered species, like gibbon's and especially langur's...

Bit like opening a monkey rescue center in Brasil, only to fill it with langur's and orang-utans? Seems a bit pointless...

14-04-2008

Don't worry - they are gibbons. I'm not sure which species without looking it up.

14-04-2008

Duh... I've seen peanut a fair few times on Monkey Business and still didn't remember it...

Would be funny if they aren't a native vietnamese species though