Going Ape

Thanks, Cobie!

Primates of Congo, a set of seven well designed stamps and a souvenir sheet issued by the Republic of Congo (Brazzaville) on October 12, 1991:

Diana Monkey (Cercopithecus diana)
Common Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)
Gelada Baboon (Theropithecus gelada)
Hamadryas Baboon (Papio hamadryas)
Southern Pig-tailed Macaque (Macaca nemestrina)
Western Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla)
Mandrill (Papio sphinx)
Western Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla)

Peru
Fauna
December 13, 2024
The stamp depicts yellow-tailed woolly monkey, a rare primate species found only in the Peruvian Andes.

Brazil
Wildlife Preservation
July 2, 1984
The stamp set depicts muriqui (woolly spider monkey), rare primate that lives only in the remaining Atlantic forests of southeastern Brazil.

Thanks Laophil and Kuol.

Here's a nice issue from Djibouti, and I promise to post some more recent issues in 2025!



On the left, Barbary macaque, red ruffed variegated lemur, chimpanzee, and a red colobus species. On the right, hamadryas baboon, vervet monkey, mandrill, mountain gorilla.

Have a great festive season, all you primate lovers!

Thanks Kou and Cobie!

Vervet monkey in Botswana (Chlorocebus pygerythrus), native of Africa, designed by R. Khonat and I. Kokabi and issued by Botswana on November 20, 2015

Sarawak SC-181 1950 2c

Monkeys, designed by Alan Ainslie and issued for use in Venda on March 4, 1994.
- Vervet Monkey (Cercopithecus aethiops)
- Leser Bushbay (Galago moholi)
- Samango Monkey (Cercopithecus mitis)
- Thick-talled Bushbaby (Ottolemur crassicaudatus)




Here is the SS issued with the set and the FDC with commemorative postmark:

I have these three EDL from Morocco probably show Baboon or Barbary Macaque. Look to me kind of color assays but I can't find this set in any catalogue and I think it was never issued. The design is very similar to stamps of Morocco when it was a French Protectorate but I have no information about them.



I scanned the stamp area in HR:

Monkeys of Zambia, issued by Zambia on April 25, 1985:

- Chacma Baboon (Papio ursinus)
- Moloney's Monkey (Cercopithecus albogularis moloneyi)
- Blue Monkey (Cercopithecus mitis)
- Vervet Monkey (Cercopithecus aethiops)

Several Chimpanzees on postmarks I picked from my monkey postmarks collection.

"Bomba", books for children - Germany, 1955.

"Inauguration of Allweterzoo in Münster" makes the chimpanzee happy, 1974.

"Visit the monkeys in Wilhelma zoo of Stuttgart", 1953.

Julius the chimp calling you to visit "Nordia 92" stamp exhibition - Norway, 1992.

"Go AAPE for transportation", USA.

Chimpanzee in Jerusalem zoo. The only primate from my collection I met personally.

Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) issued by Netherlands on March 22, 1988.

Maxicard shows the original photo used as a model to design the stamp.

My turn again:




The Central African republic has been quite prolific in its issues ... including monkeys and apes

Common Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), issued by Tanzania on March 30, 1992.

Two covers sent to the USA franked with three different chimpanzee stamps.

More primates:

From Antigua and Barbuda, 2024:



The stamps show capuchin monkeys and crab-eating macaques - neither is native to the Caribean, but thye have become established as feral animals.

Also, an issue from Liberia, 2020:




Mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx)
Proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus)
Lion-tailed macaque (Macaca silenus)
Japanese snow monkey (Macaca fuscata)
Cotton--top tamarin (Saguinus oedipus)
Bolivian squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus)





Rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta)
In surround: Mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx); rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta, NOT: Macaca sylvanus = Barbary macaque)

The Proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus) or long-nosed monkey, is a reddish-brown arboreal Old World monkey endemic to the south-east Asian island of Borneo. This monkey is characterized by his large nose and belly. Here are several items show the Proboscis monkey.

Indonesia, December 22, 1977. One of the beautiful stamps in my collection!!

UN Headquarter in Vienna, March 15, 2007.

Malaysia, December 16, 2003.

The 2003 Malay stamps on postal stationary (with Orangutan on the printed stamp).

Germany, postmark and meter.