La Vallée des Singes

La Vallée des Singes

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Location Romagne, France
Coordinates 46°14′34″N 0°17′23″E / 46.24270°N 0.2896°ECoordinates: 46°14′34″N 0°17′23″E / 46.24270°N 0.2896°E
Memberships EAZA[1]
Website www.la-vallee-des-singes.fr

La Vallée des Singes ("The Valley of the Monkeys") is a primate park in Romagne, France.

History

La Vallée des Singes was founded by Wim Mager who had previously founded the Apenheul Primate Park in the Netherlands in 1971, which is the first free-roaming primate park in the world.

Animals

The park is home to various primates, including brown spider monkeys, red-faced spider monkeys, bonobos, brown capuchins, white-shouldered capuchins, yellow-breasted capuchins, roloway monkeys, western chimpanzees, eastern black-and-white colobus monkeys, geladas, southern white-cheeked gibbons, western lowland gorillas, red-tailed monkeys, woolly monkeys, barbary macaques, ring-tailed lemurs, crowned lemurs, red ruffed lemurs, black-and-white ruffed lemurs, mandrills, Geoffroy's marmosets, common marmosets, silvery marmosets, pygmy marmosets, black-capped squirrel monkeys, white-faced saki monkeys, siamangs, emperor tamarins, cottontop tamarins, golden-headed lion tamarins, red titi monkeys,golden lion tamarins and De Brazza's monkeys.

Notes

  1. "EAZA Member Zoos & Aquariums". eaza.net. EAZA. Retrieved September 1, 2012.

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