DutchNews.nl, June 5, 2015
Jeff in 2014. Photo: Apenheul |
The only
surviving Proboscis monkey at the Netherlands’ Apenheul zoo is being returned
to Singapore because it is lonely, the primate centre said on Friday.
Apenheul
had five of the long-nosed primates as part of a captive breeding programme.
Three died earlier and the female, named Bagik, died at the beginning of May.
‘Jeff is now alone and this is not a natural condition because Proboscis
monkeys live in groups,’ the zoo said in a website statement. ‘We have
discussed the situation with the zoo in Singapore where Jeff originally came
from and decided to send him back so he can live with others of his kind.’
The
Apenheul was the only zoo outside Asia which had Proboscis monkeys. Jeff and
the other monkeys which died arrived at the centre in 2013.
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