Island Life Magazine Ltd December 2009/January 2010 | Page 60

life COUNTRYSIDE, WILDLIFE & FARMING Photo above: Xhabu (Siamang) with Don knowledgeable and enthusiastic has over thirty trees. They are lightweight, with a small round years experience keeping monkeys and owls, head. There arms are longer than their legs! he is clearly dedicated to giving the inhabitants And like all apes they have no tail. Their face first class accommodation and this is rewarded is almost hairless, with a slight moustache and by some very happy and content looking (and beard. They have very similar senses to us sounding) monkeys and gibbons. including hearing, coloured sight, smell, taste Keep an eye out to see exactly when they plan and touch. Their diet consist mainly of fruit to open and check out their website to find out but will also enjoy insects, spiders, birds eggs more about the monkeys and opening times: and small birds. All gibbons are an endangered www.owlandmonkeyhaven.co.uk species, due to their loss of habitat, Siamang’s coming from the rainforests in Malaysia and Know before you go Sumatra. Siamang’s are the largest and darkest Rhesus Macaques are more species of gibbon, they are slender with long wide-spread, being found in many countries arms and spend most of their time living in from Afghanistan and India to Thailand and Photo left to right::Anthony and Don Walser, Outside eating area. 60