Going Ape

Another portrait of a youngster in the Budapest Zoo: this is Gizmo the Madagascar Maki catta. Cut from the pane of twelve young animals, mentioned above, 2014.

The third primate in the Budapest Zoo set shows the baby night monkey or owl monkey, Nefriti, from a family originating in South America, genus Aotus.

Netherlands Antilles
Fauna
January 26, 2007
Set of twelve, one stamp depicts Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes).

Hello Kuol and Kris:

Thanks for the new apes! Kris, the 2016 Hungary zoo sheet has another monkey, a baby Javan lutung, second from left at the top:



This is an endangered species where animals are either black or ornage in colour ; the infnats are almost neon orange!

This 1914 German cinderella advertises the Second German East African Country Exhibition held in Dar Es Salaam. Two primates (chimpanzees?) are depicted.

Thanks bookbndrbob!

Here is one of the first 2020 Primates/Monkeys issues from the usual Africn countries, Sao Tome and Principe:




The first shows a colobus, the spectacular guereza from East Africa and Ethiopia, with a side show of Sumatran ornag-utan baby, and rhesus monkeys; the accompanying issue has the common squirrel monkey, white-handed gibbon, rhesus monkey, and emperor tamarin.

Not unattractive, and as a monkey collector, I do get them and other such African issues since these days, they are much nicer than some older issues (talking of illustrations in colour rather than photos).

On October 2, 1996 Mexico issued a sheet of 24 different large stamps making up a panoramic view of a forested area with birds and animals. This sheet promotes the protection of the "Selva Humeda" and its wildlife. Selva Humeda includes the Yucatan Peninsula and the southern coast of the Gulf of Mexico. One of the stamps (Sc #2571) in the sheet includes a depiction of a Mexican howler monkey.

From Wikipedia, "The Mexican howler monkey (Alouatta palliata mexicana) is a subspecies of the mantled howler. This subspecies is found predominately in forests between south eastern Mexico and north eastern Peru...It is now located only in patches of forestry within these regions because loss of habitat has been so extensive."

On October 2, 1996 Mexico issued a sheet of 24 different large stamps making up a panoramic view of a forested area. This sheet promotes the protection of the "Selva Humeda" and its birds and animals. The Selva Humeda includes the Yucatan Peninsula and the southern coast of the Gulf of Mexico. One of the stamps (Sc #2571) on this sheet includes depiction of a Mexican howler monkey.

From Wikipedia, "The Mexican howler monkey (Alouatta palliata mexicana) is a subspecies of the mantled howler. This subspecies is found predominately in forests between south eastern Mexico and north eastern Peru...It is now located only in patches of forestry within these regions because loss of habitat has been so extensive."

Ecuador
BITE - International Tourism and Trade Fair of Ecuador
May 14, 2003
A strip of five stamps, one stamp depicts Spider Monkey (Ateles sp.).

India
Endemic Species of India
October 16, 2012
Set of four, one stamp depicts Hoolock Gibbon.

Here is Indonesia's June 5, 2000 souvenir sheet (Sc #1906) promoting environmental care. The 4000 rupiah stamp features a pair (mother and juvenile) of crab-eating, or long-tailed macaque monkeys (Macaca fascicularis).

Malaysia
Stamp Week - Wildlife
December 2, 1996
Set of five, one stamp depicts Lar Gibbon (Hylobates lar).

Poland
Polish Zoos
September 11, 2007
Set of four, one stamp depicts Emperor Tamarin (Saguinus imperator) from Plock Zoo.

On May 27, 1986 the DDR issued a set of four stamps to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the Dresden Zoo. All four stamps depict primates, and the lower three values (Mi. #s 3019-21) show apes. The 70 pf value pictures a pair of lemurs.

10 pf. orangutan
20 pf. colobus monkey
50 pf. mandrill

My main thematic collection is Primates. I think the following stamp is the most beautiful in my Primate collection and for sure my favorite:

Madagascar - 1954
Designed and engraved by Pierre Gandon;


Color proof assays in monochrome and mix of the two colors: