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a juvenile mandrill
Vincent Siu leads training training for golden snub nose monkeys at Ocean Park in Hong Kong. Vincent is operations manager, terrestrial life sciences. E-mail: vincent.siu@oceanpark.com.hk Shown also were Paul Fung (documenting the training with a small camera) and Matt Leung, the other trainer in the background. Primary contact/escort is: Pauline Li Corporate Management Trainee Public Affairs, Sales & Marketing Ocean Park Corporation T: (852) 3923 2865 F: (852) 2553 0777 E: pauline.li@oceanpark.com.hk
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A three-month-old baby chimpanzee named Ruben at Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo.
A baby Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) named Aurora, with her adoptive mother, Cheyenne, a Bornean/Sumatran cross (Pongo pygmaeus x abelii) Orang keepers were Mary and Dena Contact for primates is: Dena Strange Honeycutt Houston Zoo, Inc 1513 Cambridge Houston Texas 77030 713-533-6878 dstrange@houstonzoo.org Other contacts here are Renee Bumpus in the conservation dept, and Rick Baronji, zoo director.
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White-Fronted LemurStatus: EndangeredThe endangered white-fronted lemur (Eulemur albifrons) faces two threats: Destruction of its rain forest habitat in Madagascar as a result of slash-and-burn agriculture, and human hunting for food in five ostensibly protected areas of the country. Photographed at Naples Zoo, Florida.Buy a print |  License this photo
Photograph by Joel Sartore, Nat Geo Image Collection

Primate Pictures

A selection of portraits from Photo Ark, a project to document the world's animals before they disappear.

November 17, 2015

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