Monkey Island at Amazona Zoo is the home to the squirrel monkeys. As the name suggests it’s a little island in the main lake [well, pond] inhabited by the squirrel monkeys. Access is by means of submerged RSJ’s allowing you to easily wade across the water whilst stopping the monkeys from doing the same. Unfortunately for me the boots I borrowed had a large split in them so I ended up with a very wet foot. Since I was carrying roughly 5 grands worth of camera equipment at the time I wasn’t going to rush and just had to accept that the boot was going to rapidly fill with water.

The monkeys have a number of ropes and trees to play on and they are tame enough that you can hand feed them, although they do sometimes bite when they get a little over enthusiastic. I’ve only spent a few minutes on the island as I still need to sort out some boots, but the monkeys are so photogenic you can’t fail to get good pictures.  One day I’ll spend an entire day camped out there armed with an array of lenses and several bags of grapes.

All images in this post can be found at images from… under the squirrel monkeys gallery in the cromer zoo section.

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