A Crab Eating Monkey
I am in India to get away from Canadian winter. In January, I took a two-day trip to Sundarban, a mangrove forest at the mouth of Bay of Bengal, bordering India and Bangladesh and home of Royal Bengal Tiger. Finding a tiger here is tough as there's no entry inside the forest, one has to take a river launch and hope that a tiger happens to cross a river to go from one side of the forest to the other where your launch is. Well, we saw many footprints on the muddy shores but no real thing.
However, I saw a few Rhesus Macaque foraging by a riverbed, during low tide. Apparently, they look for crabs or small fish - something that I didn't know about their adaptation to the landscape - there are hardly any fruiting trees in the forest. One was standing guard in case any tiger sneaked up from the nearby forest.
Sundabnan, India
A Crab Eating Monkey
I am in India to get away from Canadian winter. In January, I took a two-day trip to Sundarban, a mangrove forest at the mouth of Bay of Bengal, bordering India and Bangladesh and home of Royal Bengal Tiger. Finding a tiger here is tough as there's no entry inside the forest, one has to take a river launch and hope that a tiger happens to cross a river to go from one side of the forest to the other where your launch is. Well, we saw many footprints on the muddy shores but no real thing.
However, I saw a few Rhesus Macaque foraging by a riverbed, during low tide. Apparently, they look for crabs or small fish - something that I didn't know about their adaptation to the landscape - there are hardly any fruiting trees in the forest. One was standing guard in case any tiger sneaked up from the nearby forest.
Sundabnan, India