/24-7PressRelease/ - LANSING, MI, December 04, 2006 - Monkey Day is celebrated annually on December 14th and offers people a reprise from the traditional religious holidays permeating the month of December, some would even say Monkey Day is the antithesis and alternative to such holidays. Monkey Day is a fun way to celebrate all things simian, an excuse to hang out with friends and family dressed as monkeys and grunt at one another, and at the same time a great way to promote knowledge and awareness of monkeys and their simian kin in a healthy manner.
Monkey Day began six years ago as a practical joke left scribbled on a friend's calendar, when the anointed date of December 14th arrived a monkey themed party gathered at a local bar, and Monkey Day was born. Each year since, Monkey Day has grown in popularity, especially among the college crowd, falling dangerously close to the end of the semester final exam week. Popular ways of celebrating Monkey Day include throwing a monkey themed party, dressing up as your favorite simian, grunting like a chimp all day, and throwing feces at passers-by (for legal purposes, monkeyday.com in no way supports the latter form of celebration).
Monkey Day is more than an excuse to throw a drunken frat party though, it is also a great way to bring awareness to social and ethical issues regarding monkeys and primates. Monkeyday.com actively promotes websites relating to monkey welfare, laboratory welfare, and preservation organizations. An online petition to make Monkey Day a nationally recognized holiday that would extol the virtues of monkeys and primates has also been started online. Monkeyday.com also runs a blog newswire ( monkeydaynews.blogspot.com ) that keeps tabs on all news regarding monkeys and primates with subject ranges from the very strange, to the scientific, even to animal rights.
Monkeyday.com has become the hub of all monkey related activities resulting from December 14th's annual Monkey Day celebration. Besides featuring the monkey news blog and the national Monkey Day petition, Monkeyday.com provides other monkey related entertainment for visitors including the fourth annual Monkey Web Comics Marathon, monkey themed drink and food ideas, a catalog of pictures from Monkey Day parties past, and a Monkey Day party finder to locate local organizations participating in Monkey Day.
For further information about the Monkey Day campaign, please visit the Monkey Day website at http://www.monkeyday.com or to reach the Monkey Day organizers call (517)-367-0777 or e-mail press@monkeyday.com .
Monkey Day Foundation
312 Rumsey Ave.
Lansing, MI 48912
(517)367-0777
press@monkeyday.com
http://www.monkeyday.com
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