- 200+ residents
- 100+ species
- All rescued
Our animals
Wales Ape & Monkey Sanctuary is home to over 200 animals across more than 100 species. Most are primates. The rest came to us in similar circumstances and stayed.
Primates and others
Each species has its own page with the named individuals you'll meet, their day-to-day, and the conservation context.
Six residents
Chimpanzees
Bili, Fergus, Nakima, Ronnie, Toto and Twmi.
White-Handed Lar Gibbons
Gibbons
Two White-Handed Lar Gibbons whose warbling calls carry across the Brecon Beacons. Endangered, monogamous, and built for the canopy.
Three rescued troops
Baboons
Three baboon troops, brought to Wales from very different places. Tino and the nine island baboons among them.
Black & Brown spider monkeys
Spider Monkeys
Acrobats from South America with a prehensile tail used as a fifth limb.
Dexter & Co.
Capuchins
The most intelligent of the New World monkeys. Once known as the barrel-organ monkeys.
African Old World monkeys
Vervet Monkeys
Old World monkeys native to Africa, with six recognised sub-species.
From the Amazon
Marmosets
Tiny New World monkeys, indigenous to the Amazon, and one of the most abused primates in the pet trade.
Squirrel-sized New World monkeys
Tamarins
Tiny tamarins from the forests of South and Central America, where the father carries the infants.
Three species at WAMS
Macaques
Three different macaque species share the sanctuary, each with their own group and routine.
Meet & Greet available
Meerkats
Smaller, faster, and immune to scorpion venom. Hunt with a 50% success rate, better than lions.
Urus, our serval
Serval Cat
An African savannah cat. Servals should never be kept as pets.
Open enclosure with a swimming pool
Wolf Dogs
Not pets. They live in an open enclosure with a den and a swimming pool, and eat raw meat.
Not just primates
Highland cattle, horses, donkeys, pigs, goats, foxes and more. They came in similar circumstances and stayed. You'll meet them all on your walk-around.
Highland Cattle
Long-haired Highland cattle that thrive in the Welsh weather. Slow-growing and unbothered.
Rescue Horses
Rescued horses that share the lower fields with our cattle and donkeys.
Miniature Horses
Chester and Bobbi, our pair of miniature horses. Small, hairy, and fond of close-ups.
Rescue Donkeys
A small group of rescue donkeys living a quiet retirement here.
Pigs
Rescue pigs, including a pair of curious Kune Kunes much loved by Twmi.
Goats
Goats that wander the lower paddocks and meet visitors as they pass.
African Savannah Cats
Bred from the African serval; not domestic cats. They are with us because they were never suited to a home.
Cats
Domestic rescue cats living on site, well known to the keepers.
Dogs
A few rescued dogs that came to us alongside other animals.
Rabbits
A small group of rescue rabbits living together in a sheltered run.
Red Foxes
Red foxes that arrived as orphans and stayed.
African Grey Parrots
African Grey parrots, intelligent and long-lived. Several have come from the pet trade.
Brown Lemur
A brown lemur from Madagascar, where lemurs face severe habitat loss.
Zebu Cattle
Zebu cattle, a humped tropical breed not commonly seen in Wales. They cope well with the weather.
Not a zoo
Our prime purpose is providing a good life for unwanted animals. There is no breeding programme, we never import from the wild, and we never supply animals to other organisations.