December 14 is International Monkey Day. The holiday was born from a joke by an art student from the University of Michigan: he wrote Monkey Day into his diary. The students supported the joke and celebrated the holiday, and later artists began to include it in their works, and recognition grew. Over time, zoologists and ecologists joined the holiday - popular science events dedicated to monkeys began to be held around the world, and later - to all primates
Primates include not only monkeys, but also lemurs, galagos, lorises and others. More than 30 species are represented in the Novosibirsk Zoo. Orangutans Batu and Michel are especially popular among our visitors. Translated from Malay, the word "orangutan" means "forest man" and for good reason - for example, Batu easily adopts human movements: he can put on a T-shirt and drink through a straw
Batu and Michel now live in the "Tropical World" pavilion, where you can also see chimpanzees Filya and Lyusya and other animals
Primates include not only monkeys, but also lemurs, galagos, lorises and others. More than 30 species are represented in the Novosibirsk Zoo. Orangutans Batu and Michel are especially popular among our visitors. Translated from Malay, the word "orangutan" means "forest man" and for good reason - for example, Batu easily adopts human movements: he can put on a T-shirt and drink through a straw
Batu and Michel now live in the "Tropical World" pavilion, where you can also see chimpanzees Filya and Lyusya and other animals
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