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:

Mountain Gorilla, designed by the Belgian artist Theirry Martin and issued by Rwanda on March 14, 1983.

Thanks Laophil_ sorry about the delay. Here are some recent 2025 issues from Guinea Bissau, of patas monkeys, chimpanzees, and Senegal bushbabies

And because bushbabies are so cute (but not as pets!), here are some more, from a Sierra Leone 2023 issue:

Great stamps, Cobie! Thanks for sharing them!

Primates from the Spanish colony Rio Muni (Equatorial Guinea) - 1962

Baboon Sphinx (Papio sphinx) - 1961.


Monkey I can't recognize, probably Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), on the background of Rio Muni map - 1961.


Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) - 1962.

Thanks Laophil.

Monkey issues keep on coming from the usual African countries - here is another group from Sierra Leone, hard on the heels of the previous sets:






Don't begrudge them any income now so much has been cut off ...

Thanks Cobie

A set of nine very well designed and attractive stamps show primates was issued by the Comoros Islands on January 25, 1999.

- Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)
- Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla)
- Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus)



Stamps were issued in mini-sheet.

Thanks Laophil.

From the Central African Republic:

Great American monkeys, thanks Cobie!

Jambo (1961 – 1992) was a gorilla housed at Jersey Zoo. He is well known for protecting a young boy named Levan Merritt who fell into the gorilla enclosure in 1986. In year 2012, Jersey issued a colorful set of four stamps and SS to commemorate Jambo the gorilla.

Thanks Laophil. Jambo (his name is Swahili for "Hello") was an impressive animal and has been good as a dominant male, leaving quite a few offspring. he was of course part of the Jersey Wildlife Trust Zoo, founded by Gerald Durrell of "My Family and other Animals" fame (I really enjoyed the tv series from the book) and a swag of other books describing his adventures with establishing the zoo and endangered animal breeding centres, traveling around the world to try and learn animals (collecting tehm, something that now is hard to do, and quite rightly so, given that most of these animals have become more endangered.

So here's a small tribute to Durrell, two of a set of 8 of 2025 in honour of Durrell's 100th anniversary:





Of the critically endangered Aloatran gentle (bamboo) lemur; and the ditto black lion tamarin.

Thanks for the information, Cobie! I just visited the Jersey philatelic service site and learned that they issued two different sets about Durrell. One with animal stamps like in your post and the other shows Durrell's photos. Three of the stamps show photos of Durrell holding chimps and probably baby Gorilla. Problem is that the two sets are very expensive, cost about 50 Pounds for both so I think I will not order them.

https://jerseystamps.com/products/1...-stamp-set-1

Meanwhile, let's enjoy monkeys from Gabon issued on April 20, 1974.

- Collared Mangabey (Cercocebus torquatus)
- Moustached Guenon (Cercopithecus cephus)
- Crowned Monkey (Cercophithecus mona nigripes)