Apes & Monkeys

Monkeys and apes are among the most endangered animal families. Poaching, logging and the bush meat trade are decimating their numbers. A percentage of all sales from this page will go to the Bushmeat Crisis Task Force, helping to combat the illegal trade in wild animals. Read more below.

Cuddlekins plush animals made of quality fabric and ultra plush stuffing. Unbelievably soft plush combined with realistically adorable faces please animal lovers of all ages! Chimpanzee and orangutan are 12" high.

Plush Chimpanzee

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Plush Orangutan

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Plush Silverback Gorilla

Signature Series plush animals are designed by certified naturalists with great attention to detail. Lush fabrics combined with striking detail make any animal lover happy! 8" high with silver back and tummy, brown sagital crest. Item AS01 $9.75 US   Add to Cart

Fuzzy Squirrel Monkey

Fuzzy Fellas are made of ultra soft, fuzzy fabric, perfect for little hands to get a good grip! 12" high plus tail. Item AS05 $9.75 US   Add to Cart

Hanging plush animals are made of quality plush fabric with realistic faces. Each critter is 17" high, and has its own name and personality. Their hands clasp together with velcro, and special tags on each animal inform and entertain.

Plush Hanging Capuchin

Zazula the brown capuchin

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Plush Hanging Sifaka

Longtemps the sifaka

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What is the difference between apes and monkeys? The main difference is that apes - gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans and gibbons - do not have tails. All monkeys have tails, with those in the Americas having prehensile, or gripping tails to help them move through the trees. African and Asian monkeys do not have prehensile tails.

Is it true monkeys and apes have fingerprints just like humans?  All primates have fingeprints on their fingers, some have them on their toes, and some monkey species even have them on the end of their tails. Their fingerprints are as unique to each animal, just as human fingerprints are unique to each person

What is The Bushmeat Crisis?

Commercial, illegal and unsustainable hunting for the meat of wild animals is causing widespread local extinctions in Asia and West Africa. It is a crisis because of rapid expansion to countries and species which were previously not at risk, largely due to an increase in commercial logging, with an infrastructure of roads and trucks that link forest and hunters to cites and consumers. www.bushmeat.org

Wildlife Conservation Society research has revealed that over ONE MILLION METRIC TONS of bushmeat are taken each year from African forests alone. The result is what many scientists now call the "empty forest syndrome" - a seemingly healthy looking landscape devoid of wildlife. Wild areas throughout the world, particularly in tropical regions, are now threatened by this problem.  www.wcs.org/international/Africa/bushmeat

Great apes - gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos - are being hunted to extinction for commercial bushmeat in the equatorial forests of west and central Africa. A far flung army of a few thousand commerical bushmeat hunters supported by the timber industry will illegally shoot and butcher more than two billion dollars worth of wildlife this year, including as many as 8,000 endangered great apes. People pay a premium to eat more great apes each year than are now kept in all zoos and laboratories of the world. If the slaughter continues at its current pace, the remaining wild apes in Africa will be gone within the next fifteen to twenty years. With them will vanish most of the equatorial rain forest, and the cultures of indigenous people who have lived there for millennia. http://bushmeat.net