Category Archives: Monkeys and Primates

Northern white cheeked Gibbons

Posted on April 20, 2017 by Rex Tyler

PU Mat National Park In Northern Vietnam Quite near the border with Laos And subject to alarm Critically endangered Some 455 living at high altitude And hoping to survive A biosphere reserve Away from humans One has to feel With … Continue reading →

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GIbbon the state of the world its no wonder torture is for me

Posted on April 17, 2017 by Rex Tyler

I have little to think about But despite that The trees in the jungle Where I was at The whole social order Of living where I Was born was rewarding But that I now die In a cage far away … Continue reading →

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MONKEY

Posted on March 18, 2017 by Rex Tyler

Such tiny cages Screaming laments Total frustration Many atttempts Blue gloved technicians Come to be there Taxpayer funded Though few are aware The sedated mother Lifeless she lays Head on one side Some awful malaise Set full of grief Drugged … Continue reading →

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You don’t care a monkeys for me do you?

Posted on March 10, 2017 by Rex Tyler

Can you feel what I feel? Do you dare to be? Watching from your bleeding tablet? Yea now watching me In this cage I’ve sat here Burning up inside Scuffed and in a load of pain The ZOO here they … Continue reading →

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Tragedy on the Cassia Road

Posted on March 8, 2017 by Rex Tyler

The Cassia ROad outside the mushroom farm And what we found Was a mother and her baby Lying on the ground Both were badly injured The baby gravely so The mother was lying on the bank Where the thick lantana … Continue reading →

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Snub nosed monkeys of Shangrila

Posted on March 6, 2017 by Rex Tyler

The mysterious monkeys of Shangrila High in the mountains is where they are Pink lips yoda ears and almond eyes Elf like they be and quite the surprise NOrth East Yunnan the snow mountain range In hidden valleys just for … Continue reading →

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I am not exotic i am just me

Posted on February 14, 2017 by Rex Tyler

Stolen I was stolen I might well be extinct Left to fester in a hovel It was as if I blinked And all my world came Tumbling down The jungle the despair Took everything I ever had And left me … Continue reading →

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Sulewesi and the macaque’s

Posted on February 11, 2017 by Rex Tyler

They live in Sulewesi Old world monkeys they Live in Tangkoko reserve Thats where they spend their day High up in the canopy And on the litter floor Little family groups Who live their lives upon the shore Around the … Continue reading →

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Old world monkeys or Macaque’s

Posted on January 2, 2017 by Rex Tyler

Terribly expressive faces Sensitive beyond belief Fruitarians for most part Which is a relief Living on these limstone casts Peering out to sea Makes for amazing climbers Out of necessity Below them on the true land The buddhists temples tend … Continue reading →

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Your zoo is a prison cell thats all

Posted on December 1, 2016 by Rex Tyler

Evidence of intuition Demonstrating our frustration Our doubtfulness and obscurity Of the human beings reasons to Leave us in these vile enclosures We are not goldfish and what we do Is suspend our judgement for our dilemma Really our fallibility … Continue reading →

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TUMBILI Sanctuary

Posted on November 18, 2016 by Rex Tyler

A happy home and enchanting place Where blessedness and bliss Really a seventh heaven And of course the emphasis Is on thoughtfulness and kindness For fulfilment is the key For those irreversibly damaged By human cruelty Instinctively affection Predisposes soul … Continue reading →

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Orphan

Posted on September 13, 2016 by Rex Tyler

Imagine losing all your family And feeling completely lost Helpless in a frightening world Life had kind of tossed You into its great chasm Without the where for all And all the alien creatures Live inside their wall You are … Continue reading →

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Zoo’s and their poor victims

Posted on August 9, 2016 by Rex Tyler

Apes are sociable animals They live in the trees all day exercise is what they do That happens to be their way Being forced to remain in Cages or pens appear To really put the wind up them And it’s … Continue reading →

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Dian Fossey and her work with the Gorillas of Central Africa

Posted on June 2, 2016 by Rex Tyler

Her virtue was her moral strength Her integrity and grace Dr Leakey realised how she was on his case A believer in her ethic He hired her and she found A lifetime for her in Rwanda Right there on the … Continue reading →

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Their closeness to us is phenomenal

Posted on May 30, 2016 by Rex Tyler

A silver backed Gorilla Was shot the other day A little boy got into A place Crawled in all that way And fell into the enclosure Its parents unaware The gorilla never harmed the boy But was shot to death … Continue reading →

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Experiments

Posted on May 11, 2016 by Rex Tyler

Come cry with me Come wipe my tears Come feel my heart break At the fears Erupting in the room today As primates suffer So we say Masks and uniforms Nurses technicians Vile impostors, they Treat each darling animal In … Continue reading →

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Mjudjie

Posted on December 22, 2015 by Rex Tyler

She was thirty three years young Our dearest Mjudjie On affection she nurturing and kind Mothering so many baby Vervets A surrogate with such a lovely mind She closed her eyes and passed The rainbow bridge no doubt is where … Continue reading →

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The Chacma

Posted on December 16, 2015 by Rex Tyler

Animals behaving badly And the interaction with humans They Are being fed with human foods And maybe now we pay A high price feeding wild souls With the kind of junk that we Are fed by the great corporates Some … Continue reading →

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Great Apes few thoughts

Posted on November 22, 2015 by Rex Tyler

It was thought that Chimpanzee’s Were not keen on water Their nature most excitable Although so much like us In Senegal they have found Amongst the trees A group in playful mood Deep in the water Swinging from a tree … Continue reading →

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Yellow delta zoo in Dong Ying China

Posted on October 2, 2015 by Rex Tyler

It opened very recently in Dong Ying And Its thrust But lets consider what they are doing Which fills me with disgust Its of course their lack of humility And empathy for life They see animals as a commodity And … Continue reading →

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Safety when sleeping

Posted on September 30, 2015 by Rex Tyler

Its very clear that the baboons know The importance of sleep and how they show Their courage and expertise getting to where Safety is evident which all can share They climb not up trees but rocks that are sheer The … Continue reading →

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On the loss of my dear mother

Posted on September 19, 2015 by Rex Tyler

What it is like for me to lose my mother And not be able to convince the world that I Am beside myself with grief for she was an angel Her understanding of me my relief Poachers came to take … Continue reading →

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Experimentation

Posted on August 14, 2015 by Rex Tyler

Its a total disrespectfulness A complete irreverence Its an humiliation and an affront That makes no sense Its contemptible behaviour To underrate their worth To minimize and belittle Others on this Earth To have that lack of conscience That deviousness … Continue reading →

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Monkey

Posted on June 29, 2015 by Rex Tyler

Do you like my metal collar And my body chain It’s not there by coincidence It’s the human refrain The changeable ness of habitats And why now I am here Chained up to a fucking post And left to rot, … Continue reading →

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Silvery leaf monkey or langur

Posted on June 3, 2015 by Rex Tyler

Arboreal monkeys from riverine forests And mangroves live out their sweet lives Palm oil is now decimating their habitat And in many ways how it survives Is staying the course high in the trees Not venturing down to the floor … Continue reading →

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Monkey and circus

Posted on May 25, 2015 by Rex Tyler

The trainer The no brainer A cruel and ugly Bitch Has no compassion Anywhere What she does to this titch It’s about retentive training A monkey on a stick That gets a blooming hiding It’s enough to make me sick … Continue reading →

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Desolation

Posted on May 15, 2015 by Rex Tyler

How many times have we heard humans say Animals don’t feel a loss no way They don’t have feelings They don’t have a soul It’s strangely naive Why some don’t believe Look at this infant It’s mother lies dead Spark … Continue reading →

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Iris

Posted on March 28, 2015 by Rex Tyler

Iris a 32 years old Chimpanzee Lived in a cage In a place Chessatea A sort of zoo On the roadside poor soul In a cramped dirty cage A dark little hole In Georgia she was Filthy as hell Under … Continue reading →

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Mazor is closed

Posted on January 16, 2015 by Rex Tyler

With people working against AR in Israel it seemed to me Telling the world the Mauritian Macaques are not treated at all badly That they were needed for research The medical lot,not me Are as brazen as the day is … Continue reading →

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Sad faces laboratory places

Posted on January 13, 2015 by Rex Tyler

they called me the sad faced monkey But there was a time of joy Before I was trapped and stuffed in some cage Which really did annoy Me the abuse I suffered daisy that’s my name From that breeding laboratory … Continue reading →

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