A rare species of monkey has just arrived at Tayto Park

Very cute.

Tayto Park has just announced that it has added to its already impressive group of animals. Earlier this month keepers welcomed six rare Sulawesi Black Crested Macaque (3 male and 3 female) into the theme park and zoo in Ashbourne Co. Meath. One of them is a small male baby who is yet to be named. [caption id="attachment_393867" align="alignnone" width="1600"]  [/caption] Sulawesi Black Crested Macaque are endemic to the Indonesian island of Sulawesi and are critically endangered. They are part of a captive population managed and monitored by EAZA’s European Endangered Species Programme (EEP). The population of Sulawesi Black Crested Macaques has suffered severe declines in numbers in recent decades and has lost up to 80 percent of its population. Visitors of the theme park this Easter will be able to see the new monkeys and will also be invited to take part in a fun detective style activity. On Easter Sunday, April 1, Mr Tayto is looking for help from some detective’s this Easter to help him solve the mystery of ‘Who stole the egg'? Mr Tayto knows it was of the animals in the zoo - but he doesn't know which one. It's an egg hunt, with a twist.