Going Ape

World Chimpanzee Day, who would have known. They are all very nice, but my favorite would be the issue from the Czech Republic.

There also is World Orang-utan Day ...

But let's stick to the chimpanzees for now:




This 2025 issue which shows Jane Goodall on one of the stamps is also available as 2 MSs of 4. More Sierra Leone:






A maxi card from South Sudan, 2026 issue.



One of my favorite more "historic" issues, Gambia 1996.




Guinea 2025, one of a set "Biodiversity".

Cobie, thanks for the reminder. Orangutan Day is held each August 18th. If I remember, I will post several orangutan stamps.

Monkeys, issued by Guinea on August 10, 1998.

- Debrazza's monkey (Cercopithecus neglectus)
- Talapoin (Cercopithecus talapoin)
- Crab-eating Macaque (Macaca irus)
- Grivet (Cercopithecus aethiops)
- Diana Monkey (Cercopithecus diana)
- Moustached Monkey (Cercopithecus cephus)
- Rhesus Macaque (Macaca mulatta)

Hello again Laophil: Thanks for the latest addition. Note that Macaca inuus is actually an older scientific name for the Barbary macaque, Macaca sylvanus (just as Macaca irus is an older name for the crab-eating macaque, Macaca fascicularis).

I posted a recent issue from Sierra Leone with chimpanzees. There is a companion issue of Western lowland gorillas, and this issue also comes as a MS of 8 or two MSs of 4:

Thank you very much, Cobie, for pointing my mistake. I confused between inuus and irus (maybe I need better glasses ) and indeed the 300F is Macaca inuus which is called today Macaca sylvanus (Barbary macaque).

Thanks for the great gorilla stamps from Sierra Leone! They are great and very attractive.