UK Tourist & Leisure Attractions

Here we are then inside Monkey World at the start of our wander round to see all the apes, monkeys and other primates.  The centre map behind us pinpointed all the areas.

As you can see, it's rather busy at Monkey World which is home to 16 different primate species in their natural environment.  Mike should feel at home then!  Right, off we go then.
 

This is Alex, a gibbon, with baby in tow.  Baby gibbon had to hang on for dear life as mother leapt wildly around in the enclosure.

In the large chimpanzee enclosure it was interesting to notice that the primates have a strict social pecking order with a dominant male in charge.
 

We wondered who got the most out of Monkey World, us looking at them or them looking at us!  The monkeys could view us for free, we had to pay £9.

The keepers gave frequent, interesting talks and were happy to answer questions, seen here at the Nursery Chimps enclosure.
 

One for the "ahhh" factor!  The guy lying down was enjoying being preened by the ape above.

Monkey World has many elevated viewing areas where a good view of the primates could be had.
 

Yum!  No sign of lunch so I'll just eat this twig I've broken off the tree!  This little guy certainly made a meal of the vegetation.

This is a Capuchin monkey.  He was running back and forth, pausing, rubbing his tummy and looking up the path outside his enclosure.  We think he was looking out for the keeper to bring his lunch!  Read all about the monkeys on the Monkey World website, see our UK tourist links.
 

Some of the primates adopted some rather uncomfortable looking positions on their equipment in the enclosures.  This fellow looks like he's had an accident with the fur dye!

Here's an Orangutan pausing to have her picture taken.  Many of the monkeys seemed to realise people wanted to take their picture and were happy to stop monkeying around and pose!
 

It was good to see the monkeys had plenty of room and equipment to climb, swing and chase each other on.  They ran around so fast it was often difficult to get a shot!

We watched these two playing for a while, then the poor monkey below was swung back and forth before being dropped to the ground by the one above - then coming back for more!
 

Belinda's seen here with our friend Bob checking out the information point on the woodland walk.

The walk led to the ring-tailed Lemurs who liked to wrap their tail round their face when sleeping.
 

Further on we saw these stump-tailed Macaques checking each other for fleas.  Looks like they could do with rubbing the sunscreen in too!  Entrance to Monkey World cost £9.
 

No visit to Monkey World is complete without a visit to the gift shop and getting Mike to buy you your very own monkey (but you've got one already Belinda)!