Best place to see monkeys/apes in North America?

Question

any good zoo's that have very good monkey/ape enclosures?

Answer 1

The Denver Zoo has a very good primate program too.  Many of the lemurs and other primates are controlled with bands rather than cages.

Answer 2

Here is one, but please try to blend in to their natural habitat if you want to study them undisturbed..

http://www.ghcaonline.com/

Answer 3

if you don't mind which species, there are a lot of primates on the beaches of California.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Yerkes is a primate research center, they do some phenomenal work on chimpanzees and bonobos regarding their cognitive abilities, including their language use and tool making.  Their webpage is: http://www.yerkes.emory.edu/

They also do some great research on capuchin monkeys and have discovered that these monkeys show "culture" in that different groups will learn to do activities differently and that if a new individual joins the group he/she will conform to the norm.  I'm a primatologist and if I could get up and go on a whim to any primate enclosure in the US, this would be the one.

Answer 6

I'd have to agree with Nancy about Yerkes but I've never been there. I wouldn't think the general public's invited. I've sat out in a field at an undisclosed site in TX with matriarchal society macaques - on about a 3rd tier social level according to them. Or lower. Observing, minor interaction as the fringies allowed so long as I behaved by Tribal Rules like no direct eye contact, no teeth-baring (smiling), keep your head down but scratching (self) and food sharing's ok teehee.

I've enjoyed spending whole days observing the gorilla family at the Golden Gate zoo at San Francisco. My heart was taken at a grown male, not the alpha, who petitioned a mom to allow her baby to take it's nap on his big wide back while he patiently and gently stayed on "all fours" during naptime. All the adults kept an eye on him the whole time. He will be a good daddy. Take water & a lunch.

Some other opportunities too, not public or zoos, but those stuck in my mind.

Answer 7

Most any city bus has a fairly good collection.

Answer 8

On a basketball court