Monkeys in Grenada?

[GonnaBaMD7]

Ok, so I know that some of the Caribbean islands have wild monkeys that will steal people's food and stuff like that. Are there monkeys on Grenada?

[pugsly]

din't come across a single one....so i would not worry about it. you see plenty of anorexic cats and occasional crabs and strange bugs and maybe an iguana if you get lucky. thats about all i saw last term!!!

[misscanada]

they all died during Ivan

[rokshana]

they all died during Ivan

They did not--but the monkeys in grenada are in the Grand Etang, so you don't really see any in and around Grand Anse.

[IndianBabu]

Go on the Grand Etang tour, it was fun.

IndianBabu

[GonnaBaMD7]

I'll have to do the Grand Etang tour. I think monkeys are very cool although I've never had any up-close experience with one.

[jaywalk81]

monkeys in the rain forest. go and see. fun

[stephew]

Ok, so I know that some of the Caribbean islands have wild monkeys that will steal people's food and stuff like that. Are there monkeys on Grenada?there are but you dont see them much unles you go into the rain forest and even then the only one I saw was a pet someone had at the shops outside the round houses. I see lots of dogs int he rainforst, never a monkey.

[basupran]

While there may be many monkeys on the island, there is only one silverback gorilla, and that is basupran.

[ribosome]

Hey All-

One of the profs at my undergrad institution, Humboldt State Univ (Go Lumberjacks!) in Northern California has studied the Mona monkeys for over a decade now. There was a nice article about them and her in Nature awhile back (see link below). She also used to take undergrad students to Grenada during the summers for a research block. I even spoke to them one year on the history of Grenada which I learned a good deal about when I was a student there. Interestingly, the undergrad students stayed at the True Blue campus during their time there which is probably why the mattresses smelled a little funny. Freakin hippies! Just kidding. Dr Mary Glenn has done a lot of work comparing the mona monkeys of GDA to their distant relatives in West Africa and how they have changed since being brought over as a food source during the slave trade years. Her faculty website is also below. Hope you enjoy these....

http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050314/pf/434268a_pf.html

http://www.humboldt.edu/~meg12/

[Kevin]

Go on the Grand Etang tour, it was fun.

IndianBabu

The Grand Etang really isnt there anymore. Just a bunch of broken trees and grass. I went up there last term its pretty sad.

[wai2w3c]

i want a pet monkey.