Apenheul

The Apenheul is a zoo in the Dutch city of Apeldoorn. The Apenheul is specialised in apes and monkeys. It opened in 1971 and was the first zoo in the world where apes and monkeys could walk around freely in the forest and between the visitors.

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• Apenheul website

Zoo: A zoological garden, or zoo for short, is a place where wild animals are encaged in an artificial environment and exhibited to the public....

Apeldoorn: is a municipality and a town in in the province of Gelderland, 26-½ miles by rail west of Amersfoort, in central Netherlands. It is a regional centre. The western half of the municipality lies on the Veluwe ridge, the eastern half lies in the IJssel valley; the neighbourhood is very picturesq...

Monkey: A monkey is any member of two of the three groupings of simian primates. These two groupings are the New World and Old World monkeys of which together there are nearly 200 species. Because of their similarity to monkeys, apes such as chimpanzees and gibbons are sometimes incorrectly called monkeys. ...