Cute Monkey Gifts

Who doesn't love monkeys? Monkeys are cute, mischievous and cheeky. They are very inquisitive in nature, which gets them in to all sorts of trouble and in some ways they remind us of ourselves. Below we are featuring a few of our favorite gifts featuring monkeys which are available from Zazzle. See more monkey gifts at Zazzle.

Monkeys in the Wild

Many of us have seen monkeys up close, mostly in zoos, rarely out in the wild, unless you have been fortunate enough to travel to parts of the world where monkeys and humans meet. This often occurs in temples in India, China and Japan, for example, where the monkeys are often revered and allowed to take residence in this special places.

Even less of us have had the opportunity to see monkeys out in the wild, where humans have yet to make their real mark, in the forests and other monkey habitats throughout the world. Below are just a few images of monkeys taken in the wild - in the forests of Costa Rico.

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Lemurs

Lemurs belong to the primate order and are native to Madagascar and there are nearly 100 species of lemurs today. Prior to humans arriving on Madagascar approximately 2000 years ago, there were many more species of lemurs. Even today, many of the species of lemurs are threatened with extinction as they have to adapt to the loss of their habitat (they now only have 10% of the area to live in they once had) and they are also hunted, which has had a significant impact on their survival in Madagascar.

Ring-tailed lemur photograph poster by Funcards
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There is great variety and diversity across the species of lemurs. The world's smallest primate, Madame Berthe's mouse lemur, is a lemur and at one time in recent history one of  the largest primate was also a lemur, although now extinct. They share many traits of the ancestral primates but they evolved independently on Madagascar.