What a beautiful cat, @daviddivergent.

The question is why the hell is he named monkey? ;)

I used to work in an animal sanctuary and my favourite animal there was a spider monkey orphan named Stef. She was so beautiful (with an amazing sense of humour). She had lush jet-black fur just like your monkey. As luck would have it, whilst at the sanctuary I took a holiday to Mexico. In the hotel grounds, I found them - a troop of spider monkeys that wanted nothing to do with me.

In fact, monkey looks like a black cat I used have over twenty years ago. She was named Shirley. My dad named her. He liked Shirley Bassey (though I'm not so sure he liked the cat). It used to love running up (and down) the curtains every day when it was time for its mad half-hour.

Great photos.