Taking monkeys seriously

Park supervisor Ramani Kobalakrishnan holding a Slow Loris which is one of the primates that can be found at Farm In The City Petting Zoo, Kuala Lumpur. —filepics

NOW that we are in the Year of the Monkey, it pays to know your apes.

While the iconic orang utan and the proboscis monkey from Borneo leap to mind when we think about monkeys in Malaysia, the peninsula is not short of its own species as well.