Going Ape

Thanks Laophil!

I feel I should contribute another proboscis monkey, thye really are special. I have seen them in the wild in Sabah jumping across (and falling into) smalls streams, I really like the females and young with their more modest snub noses.



and here is a recnt issue from Antigua and Barbuda, showing crab-eating macaques and capuchin monkeys.

Cobie, great stamps from A&B. Sure you love the following well designed set and SS's of monkeys of Gambia issued by the Gambia on August 1, 1994.

Kirk's Colobus (Colobus kirkii)
Guinea Baboon (Papio cynocephalus)
Collared Mangabey (Cercocebus torquatus)
Black and White Colobus (Colobus polykomos)


Mona Monkey (Cercopithecus mona)
Vervet (Cercopithecus aethiops)
Patas Monkey (Erythrocebus patas)
Red Colobus (Colobus badius)


Guinea Baboon (Papio cynocephalus)
Collared Mangabey (Cercocebus torquatus)

Time for some more apes!
I really like these chimpanzees, a 2024 issue from Sierra Leone

Lovely Chimps and great design! Thanks, Cobie.

To publicize the international stamp exhibition "CHINA '96" held in Beijing, Togo issued a set of 12 stamps in two sheets show wildlife of Africa. Four of them show different primates:

Calabar Potto (Arctocebus calabarensis) and Moustached Guenon (Cercopithecus cephus)



Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) and Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla)

Thanks Laophil.

Here are some beautiful issues showing chimpanzees, from Niger: