Maybe it was King Kong who inspired me watching his cartoons as a kid but anyways , wasn't he one enormous beautiful Ape , also known as Gorillas they are the closest monkeys to humans and we could all see that by the latest movie of King Kong "Skull Island" in the way his feelings and expressions towards her in the movie , by the way i photography this beautiful Gorilla in Taronga Zoo in Sydney , Australia. I don't know if you have taken any notice but most monkeys have tails, but with Apes or the Gorillas do not is why it makes them more human.
This is another species of monkeys called the Macaque and there are a couple of species of the Macaque that do not have tails and are close looking to humans also. This was mum and baby also living in Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia so adorable and cute i love the coloring of these Macaque monkeys.
There are 23 species of Macaques monkeys inhabit ranges throughout Asia, North Africa, and Gibraltar and they average a lifespan of about 27 years old.
This one is a Japanese Macaque monkey longer hair and different coloring.
When i visited the Philippines many years ago i was only intending to stay for about a month but i ended up staying for 6 months and i befriended a little toy monkey as they call them he was my best pal he lived in my rented house for about five months till i had to leave it was so sad to leave him behind we got along so well we would play games and watch TV together he was like my little kid but unfortunately i couldn't take him back to Australia with me just to many regulations that didn't allow me to 🤔
About eight years ago a friend of my who also has the love of monkeys asked me if i wanted to go to Africa on a safari tour to see the monkeys in the wild and do some photography so yeah way not we packed our bags and off we when this turn out to be one of my highlights in my life. This is a Chacma Baboon, also known as the Cape Baboon is like all other baboons, from the Old World monkey family these are a very powerful monkey. It is one of the largest of all monkeys.
Now that i have been living in Thailand for the past 10 years i have run across many monkeys around the country the beach monkeys , the forest monkeys , the coconut working monkeys they even have a beach called monkey beach it's inhabited by hundreds of beach monkeys which we did visit one time quite interesting make sure you bring some food for them , they will be more friendly and nicer towards you.
On the island of Koh Samui in Thailand which i visit quite regularly i have one of friend there who owns a few coconut plantations and i always wondered these guys must be good coconut tree climbers to get up them trees to be picking of them coconuts. I asked my friend one day how do you get up them coconut trees to pick them coconuts he said we have trained coconut monkeys that do that for us...WoW...this was interesting i had to meet these monkeys i said to him.
This is Jill.
This is Jack.
So last time i visited Koh Samui island i visited my friends coconut monkeys he has four of them , they are from the Macaque family of monkeys. He calls them Jack and Jill then there is simply Mom and Pop , Jack and Jill are the male and female kids to Mom and Pop and together they are team workers well Mom does not really do much these days it's mainly Pop and his kids Jack and Jill who do all the climbing of them coconut trees picking of the coconuts of them tall lanky trees.
This is Mom.
This is Pop.
They are one great family of Macaque monkeys real team work and they get rewarded real well they all have there own little room and bed just like little kids and feed well and i loved how friendly they were it was a real joy meeting these monkeys and i do visit them every time i am in Koh Samui. So that is my story of my love of monkeys.
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