Under the shade of a cotton tree in Gumbalimba Preserve and Animal Sanctuary the monkey sitting on my head nurses her baby and eats her nuts. Bruna is a white-cheeked, black-haired spider monkey and the sanctuary is in the Bay of Islands, Roatan, 40 miles off the northern coast of Honduras, in the Caribbean Sea. Bruna shows no fear of humans and af...

Playing with monkeys in Honduras is a highlight excursion during a Western Caribbean cruise on the Norwegian Getaway. As the saying goes, he's a cheeky monkey. Poncha, a white-faced Capuchin, is flitting between my wife and I and our 14-year-old daughter, wrapping his tail around our necks as he perches on our shoulders and stares longingly into ou...