Plastic Proboscis Monkey

Meet the Cyrano de Bergerac of primates!

Our Plastic Proboscis Monkey

This engaging-looking plastic proboscis monkey replica is made of solid plastic and stands on a branch. It is 2 inches tall from the ground to the top of the branch. The color is somewhat imaginative, but has distinctive highlights. Our proboscis or long-nosed monkey miniature has a concerned expression but promises not to bite. This proboscis monkey replica makes an interesting pet or gift and fits nicely into a shoebox diorama for a school project. Check out our other monkey toys and gifts.

About Proboscis Monkeys

Proboscis monkeys or long-nosed monkeys are an endangered Old World monkey. It is found in Borneo in south-east Asia. It gets its name from its unusually long nose which can protrude up to 7 inches. They use their long nose to attract females which also have long noses, but not quite as long. It allso fills its nose up with blood and uses it to make a resonating sound to warn of predators. It is arboreal but also amphibious. It is a deft swimmer. It lives in mangrove swamps where it eats leaves and berries. As a troupe, the proboscis monkey walks in single file through the forest.

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Plastic Golden Lion Tamarin

We think he's the king of HIS jungle!

Our Golden Lion Tamarin

This engaging-looking plastic golden lion tamarin replica is made of solid plastic and stands on a branch. It is 1 1/2 inches tall from the ground to the top of the head. The color is somewhat imaginative, but has distinctive highlights. Our golden lion tamarin miniature has a concerned expression but promises not to bite. This golden lion tamarin replica makes an interesting pet,or gift and fits nicely into a shoebox diorama for a school project. Check out our other monkey toys and gifts.

About Golden Lion Tamarins

The golden lion tamarin is a highly endangered New World monkey. It has a flat nose but its tail, although long, is not prehensile. It is found in the rain forests of Brazil and may only have 1000 individuals left in the wild. It is arboreal, diurnal and lives in small groups of about 14 individuals. It derives its name from its lion-like features. The golden lion tamarin is a reddish orange to golden brown in color. Its hair is longer and darker around the face, forming a mane on top of the head and on the cheeks and throat. Its limbs are slender yet capable with sharp claw-like nails (called tegulae), befitting its strictly arboreal life.

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Plastic Uakari Monkey

A rare and wonderful primate from the New World!

Our Plastic Uakari Monkey

This engaging-looking plastic uakari monkey replica is made of solid plastic and stands on a branch. It is 2 inches tall from the ground to the top of the branch. The color is somewhat imaginative, but has distinctive highlights. Our uakari monkey miniature has a concerned expression but promises not to bite. This uakari monkey replica makes an interesting pet or gift and fits nicely into a shoebox diorama for a school project. Check out our other monkey toys and gifts.

About Uakari Monkeys

Uakari monkeys are a highly endangered New World monkey. They are found in South America in the Amazon Basin. They are unusual for New World monkeys in that they have vey short tails. Their bodies are covered with long, loose hair but their heads are bald. They have almost no subcutaneous fat, so their bald faces appear almost skull like. There are bald, red, and black uakari monkeys. They are a quiet almost lethargic monkey in zoos, but in the wild, they are quite active and travel in largre troupes feasting on nuts, buds, fruit and leaves.

This blog is sponsored by Tapir and Friends Animal Store.

Plastic mystery monkey - can you identify our new primate?

Lee has done a fantastic job of identifying our new plastic primates. In the process he learned a lot about Old World monkeys, New World monkeys, teeth, claws, paws, brachiation, prehensile tails, short tails, lack of tails, tufts, etc. But he was unable to match characteristics of this plastic monkey to the real world. If you have an idea, please let us know! If you're the first and we use your identification, we can work out an appropriate gift! We specialise in realistic animal toys and gifts, and we do care about the species names! Sometimes it's impossible to get toy animals that are true to life, but we do the best with what's available. Sometimes they are very accurate, and when they aren't we usually comment on it. Many of our customers are animal-lovers, and many use these animals in school projects for dioramas or for show-and-tell with their reports.

Come see our expanded collection of plastic primates!

A barrel of plastic monkeys

When someone wants to order a stuffed or plastic animal in bulk, we do our best to get it for them. In this case, it was 500 monkeys of a particular species. Sometimes we have surprising animals in bulk, but this time we had to "order in." We make phone calls, we crunch numbers, and we try to make it work for everyone.

So, the day after our customer called us with "an unusual question," several large boxes were brought through our front door by UPS.

Barbara and Sue set to work tearing open boxes and slicing plastic bags. And, piles of toy monkeys were the result! At this point, I was glad they were only toys, or we'd have had a problem!

Ah, lots of material to be recycled. Unfortunately, these inner boxes are too flimsy to ship through the mail on their own, or we would have had a nice supply of them for your orders!

Here they are . . . monkeys galore. Now all we needed was sorting. But we're multi-talented here, and Sue and Barbara made quick work of the task.

The capuchins were separated out (top photo, and why does it remind me of The Wizard of Oz?), and we now have a barrel of monkey species for your pleasure! You should be seeing them online in the next few days. I have to identify them first, and there are some interesting ones here. All stand on their plastic platforms, and all are on plastic branches. Do you have a project that requires primates? We have them! In stock! Now! Some are probably in the "hard to find" category. I know there's a uakari monkey and a sifaka lemur. I think I saw a tarsier, and there are others I'll have fun researching. If you find this post before we get them online, just give a call or send e-mail.

Phone: (503) 325-3179

E-mail: tapir@tapirback.com

Let us know what your unusual toy animal request is. We'll try to help!