Just a short note to introduce our latest adoption and to say thank you to S & J for the early Christmas present.

Kartika is a female Sulawesi Black Macaque from Indonesia, presently in the care of the Durrell Conservation Trust in Jersey.

Macaques are a ‘cheek-pouched’ monkey in the same group as baboons, guenons and vervet monkeys; but are sometimes confused with apes because their tails are so small.

Only found on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia, the endangered black crested macaque lives in tropical forest and is a mixed ground and tree dweller.

Animal ‘adoptions’ are nice to receive and even nicer to give. They are also a good way of alerting friends and family to conservation issues.

Kartika joins two sea-turtles from the Mexican Baja California peninsula, and a lemur – so we are really quite diversified!