Copyright Issues

Copyright Note - Images presented in the Primate Gallery Web Site are being made available by the permission of a variety individuals. The images are not in the public domain, since these individuals still own the copyright to their photographs and illustrations.

Permission is granted for use of digital images provided in the Primate Gallery for Personal, Research and Educational use only. You may download these files to your computer for viewing and personal use. All the files in the Primate Gallery are intended for Internet users to enjoy, but are not intended for commercial exploitation.

Use of Images on a Web site

Please contact the original photographer by email if you are interested in using any of their images on your Web pages. Submit the URL and name of the site where you plan on posting the images. Please do not ask me for permission to use other people's images.

Curator's Note: I actively support primate conservation and online learning, so I naturally grant permission for free use of images for nonprofit educational sites. I do not support Web sites that promote primates as pets. You may use any of my images in your Research or Educational web pages as long as you include the following photo credit: (Photo by Tim Knight, Primate Gallery). I would like to know how these images are being used, so please send e-mail including the URL of the home page to .

Commercial Use of Images

Please contact me by email if you are interested in using any of my images for commercial use (Web pages, posters, books, magazine articles, etc.) Please supply as much detail as possible about how you plan on using the images. Permission is granted to use any images in publications that review or promote the Primate Gallery site.

Contact the original photographer by email if you are interested in using any of their images for commercial purposes. Please do not ask me for permission to use other people's images.

For more information on copyright law, please see the United States Copyright Office.

Audio Credits

I thank the following contributors of audio recordings:

Marcia Brown
Mandrill vocalizations

Steven Haugereid
audio recordings of lemurs, gibbons, gorillas and other primates

Tim Knight
audio recordings of Chinese Golden Monkeys

Photo Credits

New Feature - Individual photo credits now are located next to the corresponding image in the Primate Gallery Archive.

I thank the following contributors:

Anonymous
- public domain images
- old primate illustrations with no copyright

Garth & Karen Andries
photos of a orangutans at Camp Leakey, Kalimantan (Indonesia)
Send email to Garth Andries: andries@optusnet.com.au

John Fontenele Araujo
Center of Primatology at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil.
Photo of a Common marmoset.

Ruffin Bailey
photos of lemurs in naturalistic settings at the Duke University Primate Center.
(Eulemur coronatus; Hapalemur griseus griseus x H. g. alaotrensis )
Send email to Ruffin Bailey: wrbailey@unity.ncsu.edu

Julio Cesar Bicca-Marques
Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Photos of seven neotropical primates.
Send email to Julio Cesar Bicca-Marques: jmarques@uiuc.edu

Gary Bradshaw
photo of a yellow baboon in a wildlife reserve in Tanzania
Send comments to Gary Bradshaw: bradshaw@cogsci.uiuc.edu

Anthony C. Brewer, UK
contributed many lemur photos marked with a small logo and the initials ACB. Anthony's high-quality images are covered by copyright law.
Send photo permission requests to Anthony Brewer: jaffa_tamarin@yahoo.com

Marcia Brown, anthropology student at Sonoma State University
photos and videos of Patas monkeys and Mandrills.

John P. Capitanio, Ph.D., Professor, UC Davis
photos of Rhesus Macaques.

Clay Eals, former Publications Editor, FHCRC, Seattle
photo of Tim Knight, Curator of the Primate Gallery, working at a computer.

Claire Edwards
photos of wild Thomas Leaf Monkey in Sumatra.
Send email to Claire Edwards: edwards.c.r@btinternet.com

Philip Greenspun, MIT, Cambridge, MA
photos of orangutans at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans.
Send email to Philip Greenspun: philg@mit.edu

Emmanuelle Grundmann
MNHN & Jane Goodall Institute France
photos of orangutans in the wild, bonobos, and macaques.
website: http://www.ruoso-grundmann.com
Send email to Emmanuelle Grundmann: emmanuelle.grundmann@wanadoo.fr

Alexander Harcourt, Ph.D. and Kelly Stewart, Ph.D.
UC Davis
photos of Mountain gorillas.

David Haring
Registrar and Photographer, Duke Lemur Center.
Contributed high-quality lemur photos.
Send email to David Haring: dharing@duke.edu

Jim Henley, Ph.D.
Jim contributed several great photos of gorillas and one dynamic photo of a Drill at Zoo Atlanta.

Lys Hornsby
Covington, Washington
photos of wild mountain gorillas, chimps, vervets, baboons, patas, and colobus monkeys.

Ellen Kerley
Formerly the Webmaster at the Duke University Primate Center
photos of a Common Marmoset and a Pygmy Marmoset

Bill and Carol Lofton
Distinctive Images, Sacramento, California
many photos of a wide variety of primates.
For more great animal photos, visit Distinctive Images on the Web.
Send email to Bill and Carol Lofton distinctiveimage@ix.netcom.com

Dennis Manoogian
photos of gorillas, baboon, spider monkeys and other primates. view photo gallery
Send email to Dennis Manoogian: d_manoogian@hotmail.com

James Mason
photos of gorillas at the San Francisco Zoo.

W. A. Mason, Ph.D.
photos of Titi Monkeys, Squirrel Monkeys, Pygmy Marmoset, and Wooly Monkey.

Michelle Mehaffey
Formerly at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
Photos of Long tail macaques.

Stefan Merker, Ph.D.
photos of Tasiers.
Institute for Anthropology, University of Mainz, Germany
Send email to Stefan Merker: tarsius@gmx.net

William F. McComas, Parks Family Professor of Science Education, University of Arkansas
photos of Macaca fascicularis from Bali and Lombok Island, Indonesia; Leontopithecus rosalia from the National Zoo, Washington, D.C.
Send email to William McComas: mccomas@uark.edu

Russell A. Mittermeier, Ph.D.
President, Conservation International
Chairman of the IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group
Russell Mittermeier is a prominent primatologist, herpetologist and wildlife conservationist with more than 30 years of field experience in Central and South America, Africa and Asia. Having served as CI's president since 1989, he is the only active field biologist to head an international conservation organization.

Russell generously provided scientific information and primate photographs to the Primate Gallery as noted with each image.

Stephen Nash
Scientific Illustrator, Conservation International/State University of New York.
Contributed many beautiful primate illustrations.
Send email to Stephen Nash: snash@ms.cc.sunysb.edu

Anna Nekaris, Ph.D.
Contributed photos of slender lorises
Visit the Creature of the Dark Web site that features a nice Lorisidae Portrait Gallery
Send email to Dr. Nekaris: kabiela@artsci.wustl.edu

Larry Rohrschneider, Ph.D.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
Photos of Barbary macaques.

Stacey Tecot, Ph.D.
Research Postdoctoral Fellow, Stony Brook University, Institute for the Conservation of Tropical Environments
Contributed digital photos of lemurs in the wild.
Send email to Stacey Tecot: stecot@mail.utexas.edu

Carol Weerts
contributed many images of primates in zoos in the United States and Europe. View Carol's great primate photos
Send email to Carol Weerts: CWeerts800@aol.com

George Williams
photos of primates from Madagascar, at Berenty in the dry south.
(Lemur catta, Eulemur fulvus rufus, Propithecus v. verrauxi, Lepilemur leucopus, Microcebus murinus)
Send email to George Williams: gww@navisoft.com

Photos by the Primate Gallery Curator:

Tim Knight, Seattle, Washington
original artwork of de Brazza Monkeys; photos in picture frames on the Primate Gallery home page; Gorilla & Madelaine crying (this is my daughter when she was 1.5 years old); de Brazza Monkeys; Black-and-White Colobus Monkeys, L'hoest Monkeys, Golden Monkeys, Lion Tailed Macaques, Gorillas, Chimpanzees, Homo sapiens; and any photo without a photo credit. For more primate images visit Tim Knight's Wildlife Web

Curator's Note: You may use any of my images in your Personal, Research, or Educational web pages as long as you include the following photo credit: (Photo by Tim Knight, Primate Gallery). I would like to know how these images are being used, so please send e-mail including the URL of the home page to .