Funny Monkey Pictures

Funny Monkey Pictures - Also a Baboon and Dobin

• Mischievous Monkeys
• Barrow Load of Monkeys!
• Picture of a Funny Monkey
• See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil
• Monkey given the bird
• Funny Monkey Business and the Dog
• Interesting Facts About Monkeys 
• Desmond and Dobbin

Mischievous Monkeys

Barrow Load of Monkeys!

A wheelbarrow load of orang-utans.  Will and Guy wonder if this funny picture of the apes was taken in Asia.

Picture of a Funny Monkey, or to be precise, a Baboon

Baboon Supporters?

A safari park is warning visitors to remove England flags from their cars after a group of baboons began stealing them.

The animals have built up a huge collection of flags in the monkey enclosure at Knowsley safari park in Merseyside. Keepers at the park say the 120-strong troop of baboons have been known to help themselves to windscreen wipers but have now turned their attentions to the World Cup flags.

Safari Park general manager David Ross told the Liverpool Echo, 'Many people are wisely removing the flags before they set off on the safari drive. But if they forget, the baboons usually take them and they've now built up quite a collection.'

Guy thinks that this an evocative picture that once seen won't go away.  My brain keeps asking questions such as, 'Do the Baboons take the flags because the support England, or because they support one of the other nations?'   Also the poor chap in the picture looks sad - what does he know about England?

Classic Funny Monkeys Picture

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil

Monkey Given the Bird

Funny Monkey Business and the Dog

A Chinese zoo has given an orphan monkey its own guard dog to stop it being bullied by bigger primates. Keepers at Jiaozuo City Zoo said the monkey was always being bullied and they had intervened to save his life on several occasions, Will and Guy have discovered. 'So we put a dog in the monkey cage, hoping he can protect the orphan,' a zoo spokesman told us.

The zoo reports that the dog, Sai Hu, does his job very well. We can see that is true from this picture.

'Whenever the baby monkey gets bullied, Sai Hu dashes up and drives the others away; also, the baby monkey is also very smart and each time he senses danger he runs to jump on the dog's back and holds on tight.

Contented Gorilla

More Funny Monkey Business

Not so unusual then [see above].........last week's story

A pet puppy has become best friends with a caged monkey at a Chinese zoo.  The mutt is owned by a keeper at Nanhai Zoo, at Zhumadian city, China, who takes her pet to work with her. She told the Dahe Daily newspaper that she noticed a bond developing between the pair about a month ago.

'When the dog walked toward the cage, the monkey inside started to shriek,' said the woman. 'And, as the six-month-old dog visited the monkey more often, they developed a close friendship. The monkey would feed the dog bananas and grooms its hair, while the dog would let the monkey ride on its back.'

A spokesman for the zoo said it was happy for the dog to spend its days in the monkey's cage as the unlikely double act was proving a hit with visitors.

Interesting Facts About Monkeys

A collection of monkeys is usually called a troop (not troupe!).  However, tribe is other collective noun for monkey, and I once heard a professor of zoology refer to a 'mission of monkeys'.   At the other end of the spectrum, I saw a stand-up comic use a gag about a 'circus of monkeys', but I think that he made up that collective noun.

The largest monkey is the mandrill (see fiercesome  mug-shot opposite).  Monkeys have tails, unlike apes like gorillas who have no such appendage. 

It's true that monkeys spend most of their time in the trees, and the use their tail like a fifth limb.  The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his behind. Joe Stillwell. 

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Barbary Ape Legend of Gibraltar

One of the most enduring legends about monkeys concerns the macaque, or Barbary ape.  The legend has it that if these monkeys all die or are relocated, then the British will be forced to leave Gibraltar.  (Despite their name and lack of tail, they are true monkeys.)

In the second world war the population dwindled to less than 10, and seemed unsustainable.  Then in 1941 prime minister Winston Churchill personally ordered a secret mission.  Two special task forces were despatched in 1942, one to Morocco and another to Algeria, they returned with about 20 Barbary apes.  Today there are over 200 Barbary apes on Gibraltar and it looks like the British will be hanging on to this outpost on Spain's doorstep.

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