More than 100 monkeys have arrived at a new tourist attraction in Staffordshire.
Their arrival is part of plans to turn the 750-acre Trentham Gardens site, near Stoke-on-Trent, into one of the UK's top visitor venues.
The 140 Barbary Macaques, from France and Germany, will be in quarantine for the next six months.
But the public will be able to see them from 19 July when the monkey park is officially opened.
The plans for Trentham Gardens were the subject of a lengthy public inquiry, but were approved by the government in November 2001.
The site closed in December 2003 for the first part of the re-development work, which included improving the Italian Gardens, which were designed by Sir Charles Barry in the 1830s and the contraction of a new visitors' centre.
Barbary Apes can be found in the Atlas Mountains of Algeria and Morocco andin Gibraltar.
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