Going Ape

The Guernsey Zoological Trust was founded in 1979 to promote the conservation of wildlife and environmental education. Located on the island of Guernsey, it aimed to protect endangered species and foster public understanding of biodiversity through research, outreach, and animal care initiatives.

Rain forest monkeys, issued for use in Guernsey on November 17, 1989 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Guernsey Zoological Trust.

- Brown Capuchin Monkey (Cebus apella)
- White-lipped Tamarin (Saguinus labiatus)
- Squirrel Monkey (Saimiri sciureus)
- Lar Gibbon (Hylobates lar)


Issued in se-tenant contains fifth stamp shows Linnaeus's Two-toed Sloth (Choloepus didactylus).

Different gibbon monkeys living in China, issued by PR of China on December 7, 2002.

- Lar Gibbon (Hylobates lar)
- Northern White-cheeked Gibbon (Hylobates leucogenys)
- Black Crested Gibbon (Hylobates concolor)
- Hoolock Gibbon (Hylobates hoolock)

Thanks Laophil. The usual African suspects have been issuing sets of stamps of Patas monkeys, chimpanzees, and galagos; the suspects being Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, and the Central African Republic.
Time for some Patas monkeys:

Great sheet, Cobie! thanks for sharing. I have a several Patas monkey stamps. Here are five of them from Mauritania, Senegal, Togo, the Gambia and the UN.

Thanks Laophil for that selection. I think the ones that I posted, on the left may be the second no recognized species of patas - they have those dark noses.

Here is a selection of baboons: the endangered guinea baboon on the single stamp MS, and on the other MS, chacma, yellow, olive and hamadryas baboon. That only leaves out the kinda baboon, another recently added species and so far, not on any stamps - it lives in Angola and Zimbabwe.

Great sheets Cobie! like the description on the SS.

African Primates, issued by Guinea Bissau on March 15, 1983.

- Hamadryas Baboon (Comopithecus hamadryas)
- Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla)
- Gelada Babbon (Theropithecus gelada)
- Mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx)
- Common Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)
- Colobus (Colobus abyssinicus)
- Diana Monkey (Cercopithecus diana)

Thanks again Laophil. Let's see what I can add to the collection this time .....





Back to some of the big ones!

Guinea Bissau 2023; all Western lowland gorilla bar the central 0ne on the MS of 5 which is of mountain gorillas.

Very beautiful and attractive Gorilla stamps and thanks for sharing! love them all Keep them coming!

Much of our knowledge about gorillas' behavior comes from Dian Fossey's research. Dian Fossey (1932–1985) was an American zoologist who undertook an extensive study of mountain gorilla groups over a period of 18 years. She studied them daily in the mountain forests of Virunga in Congo and later in the Rwandan side of Virunga, initially encouraged to work there by anthropologist Louis Leakey. Her 1983 book, Gorillas in the Mist, combines her scientific study of the mountain gorilla at Karisoke Research Center with her own personal story. Fossey was murdered in 1985, probably by Gorilla poachers.

In my collection, several stamps about Dian Fossey. Here are two from Palau (the first in the world) and Mozambique.


Virunga Parc with mountain gorilla, Congo, 2005.

"Gorillas in the Mist" is a 1988 American drama film directed by Michael Apted and starring Sigourney Weaver as Dian Fossey. It tells the story of Fossey's work in Rwanda with Mountain Gorillas and was nominated for five Academy Awards, Lesotho, 1991.

During her research, Dian Fossey studied several aspects of the Gorillas behavior like...

Communication...

Maternity...

...and using tools.

Golden Snub-nosed monkey, issued by PR China on September 25, 1963.

Thanks Laophil! Your last post,showed the snub-nosed golden monkey, China's pride and joy - but there are two, maybe three other snub-nosed species, all very rare. Here's one of them:



This is the Yunnan black and white, or black snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus bieti).



The third species is the gray SNM, while, only discovered in Myanmar in 2010, there is the Myanmar SNM. They have not yet been on stamps yet.




From: https://www.earth.com/endangered-sp...hecus-bieti/

Thanks, Cobie, nice stamps of Djibouti. Hope Myanmar will issue a stamp for the newly discovered SNM.

Primates of Senegal, issued by Senegal on November 29, 1996:

- Grivet (Cercopithecus aethiops)
- Patas Monkey (Erythrocebus patas)
- Campbell's Guenon (Cercopithecus campbelli)
- Common Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)
- Guinea baboon (Papio papio)

These are from The Gambia: first, a chimpanzee; second, guinea baboon, green monkey, senegal bushbaby, patas monkey, and red colobus.

The Gambia does not issue as many wildlife stamps as some other African countries, and therefore, these issues can be quite pricey - but us primate fanatics will eat dry bread rather than miss an issue (although I do not have the famous 1980 Year of the Monkey stamps of the PR China, but I have a used one; which at least I know is genuine - the market is afloat with false reproductions ....)

Endangered monkeys of the New World, stamps and maxi cards, issued by Brazil on May 24, 1994.

- Emperor Tamarin (Saguinus imperator)
- Pied Tamarin (Saguinus bicolor)
- Golden Lion Tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia)



FDC sent to Israel with additional postage. Postmark shows the Pied Tamarin.

A set of maxicards.

Thanks Laophil.

Here is my next choice of primate:



More gorillas from Djibouti, 2022

Thanks, Cobie. Here are more from Djibouti, this time the Green monkey or Vervet monkey (Cercopithecus aethiops).

Afar and Issa (later became Djibouti), issued on October 24, 1975.



Djibouti, issued on May 29, 1993.