Today we went to Monkey Town after our visit to Lwandle. It seems to me that it is basically a zoo, where animals are held in captivity and are bred and used for the entertainment of people who pay to see them. This is unlike a sanctuary because though there are a couple of animals that they saved who were past pets, a sanctuary does not breed, it only saves animals from their current situations. Anyway, I have loads of adorable pictures of monkeys:
Spider monkey, son of the alpha male of all the monkeys at monkey town, whose name is Luke.
Squirrel Monkey
Baby Squirrel Monkey being hand reared by one of the workers at the zoo because he was rejected by his mother.
Spider monkey again
Antelope
Looking at pictures on the tour guide's cell phone and responding to them
Former pets who were saved
EMU!!
Breast feeding from the mother
Gibbon monkeys. In Asia, these are a big delicacy. They put them freshly dead in a hole in the middle of the table and eat their brains and don't touch anything else. To be able to get one Gibbon for this, they may kill all the other Gibbons around it. It's considered an aphrodisiac there, like many other strange, random and endangered things are.
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