Is this the picture of the day? Kimon, an eight year old, female long-tailed monkey sits with a kitten, whom, she treats as her baby, in Bintan Island, Indonesia. Taken from Picture Desk Live: our photo coverage of the day’s events in the UK and around the world
Photograph: Sijori Images/Barcroft India
So beautiful! A new species of monkey (Cercopithecus lomamiensis), known locally as the lesula. Photograph: Hart JA, Detwiler KM, Gilbert CC/PA
Photograph: Sukree Sukplang/Reuters
Monkeys enjoying a cold bath during a hot day in Ayutthaya, Thailand. Nearby Bangkok is seeing the hottest average temperatures in the past 30 years - part of our environment site’s Week in Wildlife gallery.
Photograph: Zoological Society of London/PA
A baby monkey has been gingerly getting used to its home at a world-famous zoo.
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