World Monkey Day 2024. Michigan state university student casey sorrow was monkeying (!) around and wrote “monkey day” on an unoccupied date on a friend’s calendar. It is a great day when it comes to raising awareness about different types of monkeys and primates around the world,.
The holiday was created and popularized in 2000 by controversial artists casey sorrow and eric millikin when they were art students at michigan state university. Monkey, in general, refers to any of over 260 species of tailed primates, including macaques, baboons, guenons, capuchins, marmosets and tamarins.