The fledgling Monkey Day holiday celebrates it's Fifth year on December 14th.

(I-Newswire) December 2, 2005 - The fledgling Monkey Day holiday celebrates it's Fifth year on December 14th.

Monkey Day is an annual holiday celebrated on December 14th that offers people a reprise from the traditional religious holidays permeating the month of December. 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 promoting knowledge and awareness of monkeys and their simian kin in a healthy manner.

Monkey Day began five years ago as a practical joke left scribbled on a friend's calender, when the anointed date of December 14th came around a Monkey themed party gathered at the 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 semester final exam week. Popular ways of celebrating Monkey Day include throwing a monkey themed party and dressing up as your favorite simian, grunting like a chimp all day long, and throwing feces on 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 also is 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 been started online. MonkeyDay.com also runs a blog news wire (monkeydaynews.blogspot.com) that keeps tabs on all news regarding monkeys and primates that ranges from the strange to the scientific to animal rights.

Monkeyday.com has become a hub of monkey related activities resulting from December 14th's annual Monkey Day. Besides featuring the monkey news blog and the national Monkey Day petition, Monkeyday.com provides other monkey related entertainment for visitors such as a third annual monkey themed Web Comic marathon, monkey themed drink and food ideas, and a catalog of pictures from monkey day parties past. New features to the website this year include a new monkey day party finder that allows bars and event planners from anywhere in the world to list their monkey themed party on December 14th, and make it much easier to find the nearest monkey party near you.

This year's official Monkey Day party will be held at Mac's Bar, 2700 E Michigan Ave, Lansing, MI. Events include band performances by The Moogulators, Kingshit, and Hundreds. There will of course be drink specials and exclusive 2005 Monkey Day T-shirts given to the first 10 monkey costumes through the door.

For further information about the Monkey Day campaign, please visit the Monkey Day website at www.monkeyday.com or to reach the Monkey Day organizers call (517)-367-0777 or e-mail press@monkeyday.com.

Contact:

Casey Sorrow
Monkey Day Foundation
(517)367-0777
press@monkeyday.com
www.monkeyday.com

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