Snow monkey
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These Japanese Macaque snow monkeys live in City Park, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. They carry on the long tradition of exotic creatures being showcased in Launceston. Throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, deer, brown bears, wallabies, even the mysterious thylacine called City Park home. After the last of the park’s beloved Rhesus monkeys passed away in 1979, Launceston’s sister city, Ikeda, Japan, gifted the city with 10 macaques. In turn, Launceston gifted Ikeda with 10 wallabies.
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Jennifer Leslie
Having loved art at school, I didn't carry on with this love into adulthood, busy raising a family and working as an Administration Officer in schools in Victoria and Queensland, Australia. After my husband died, who was originally from London, my daughter & family took me on a wonderful trip to…
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