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!