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Monkey Island, Liberia

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Monkey Island, Liberia

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Monkey Island is a cluster of six uninhabited mangrove islands in the Farmington and Little Bassa rivers in Liberia. They serve as an informal sanctuary for a group of chimpanzees that were used in biomedical research conducted by the New York Blood Center from the 1970s until 2005.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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