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Survival Struggle

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Northern Pig-tailed Macaque / সিংহ বানর / কুলু বানর

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The Northern Pig-tailed Macaque is an endangered species, listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. I photographed them in a reserve forest in Bangladesh last December. I was waiting to photograph a few species of birds near a waterbody and found them as they came to drink. This unusual pose of these two macaques drinking water while hanging upside down looks interesting. It seems like they are telling us that their fate of survival is hanging on a narrow line like that fragile branch that they are hanging on. Are we getting the message they are conveying?

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N.B.: Low-key appearance is attained in post-processing.

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Uploaded on March 3, 2022
Taken on December 16, 2021