Ghana Gazette

We had occasion to visit a Monkey Sanctuary near Hohoe which is located on the Togo border. We arrived and with a guide who took a bunch of bananas with him, set forth into the forest to find some Mona Monkeys. We hiked for fifteen minutes without luck, but the guide was continually making what I assume were invitational type noises - because at one point he said "listen" - the leaves kind of rustled a bit and two of the monkeys appeared to test the banana market!!
Instead of just giving the bananas to the monkeys, the guide encouraged us to hold tightly to the bananas and they would beg a little bit for them, and only eat a little piece at a time - so Carolyn had to try the process initially - the Monkey cooperated very nicely. As this process was going on, the trees were beginning to fill in a bit and pretty soon we had about 6 or 7 monkeys doing all they could to get a bit or two of the bananas that we had for them.


Sister Nielson had a little luck getting one to stand up and eat the banana out of her hand. The leader of the group arrived during the commotion and sort of took charge - he would take a banana - no one contested it and remove himself into the jungle to eat it - it was too dark to get a good picture of him, but he was about the size of bobcat or perhaps a little bigger. The rest of our friends were smaller, very active and very tame and people friendly.