Monkeys - The Barbados Green Monkey

Now you see them… now you don’t! Our tribe of 26 monkeys is free to come and go as they please. Their routine consists of stretching awake at 5.15 a.m. and sleepily climbing out of their mahogany treetop ‘beds’ at the Wildlife Reserve. They clamber over the enclosure and make their way to the adjacent Grenade Hall where they spend a few hours playing, grooming and snacking on what they find along the way, such as small bulbs and tender leaf sprouts. As the day warms up they continue to travel through the maze of gullies that criss-cross the countryside within a 10 km radius of the Wildlife Reserve...
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History

The Green Monkeys of Barbados (Chlorocebus Aethiops) originated from the Senegal/Gambia region of West Africa and were introduced to the island during the 17th century. They were declared a serious agricultural pest in 1680 and a bounty was offered by the government for every monkey killed. No other monkeys have been introduced to the island since.