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About Apenheul
Apenheul is a beautiful, green zoo where 500,000 people experience an unforgettable day out every year. In 2016 we were even voted the best day out in the Netherlands. We are experts in primates, a ...
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Fun facts
Always been curious about what primates eat and how we actually got all those monkeys? On this page you will find all kinds of facts about the animals living at Apenheul.
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Apenheul Primate Conservation Trust
At Apenheul, you get to meet many different species of primate. Unfortunately, many of their counterparts in the wild are not doing so well. Their habitat is disappearing and they are being hunted. ...
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Code of ethics
The keeping of animals raises ethical issues. We want to be open and transparent about how we relate to these issues. This code of ethics starts with an introduction about keeping animals and then ...
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Organisation
Apenheul is a beautiful, green zoo where 500,000 people experience an unforgettable day out every year. In 2016 we were even voted the best day out in the Netherlands. We are experts in primates, a ...
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Breeding programmes
We are often asked where ‘our’ primates come from. Most primates living at Apenheul were born here or in other zoos. That’s because Apenheul actively takes part in breeding programmes for a whole r ...
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Guided tours
You’ll really get to see the primates’ individual personalities shine on a guided tour through Apenheul. Our specially-trained, enthusiastic guides will tell you everything you want to know about A ...
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Yellow-breasted capuchin
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Guianan bearded saki
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Bornean orangutan
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Bengal Hanuman langur
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Western lowland gorilla
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King Colobus
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Northern talapoin
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Homepage
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History
In the 1960s, Wim Mager, a photographer from Rotterdam, bought two marmosets in a pet shop (which was still possible at that time). What started as a hobby quickly got out of hand. The marmos ...
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Bonobo
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East Javan langur
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Barbary macaque
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Blue-eyed black lemur
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Brown-headed spider monkey
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Colombian white-faced capuchin
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Groups
Are you visiting Apenheul with a group? Groups of 20 people or more receive a € 2.50 additional discount per person on the price of their entrance ticket, either at the counter or on our webshop. ...
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Crowned sifaka
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50th gorilla born
In mid-February, a bonobo was born in Apenheul, and now gorilla Gyasi has given birth to a healthy child for the second time. Mother Gyasi and her baby are doing well. The baby's gender is not yet ...
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Gorilla baby
At the end of February, a gorilla was born in Apenheul for the 50th time. It is an extraordinary event, not just because the primate park is celebrating its 50th anniversary, but also because this ...
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Blue-eyed black lemur project
Blue-eyed black lemurs are threatened with extinction because poor people in Madagascar cut down the forests where these lemurs live and they also hunt them.
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Lac Alaotra bamboo lemur