Monkey Punch!
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(Cercopithecus mona) The mona monkey is an Old World monkey that usually lives in west Africa between Ghana and Cameroon. But they are also found on the island of Grenada as it was transported to the island aboard slave ships headed to the New World during the 18th century. This one jumped on my husbands shoulder and then proceeded to open his backpack and extract a banana (our lunch) and then ran off with it!
One of India's numerous mischievous monkeys. I think this is a Common Langur monkey, but not sure...
This photo is from my first camera in 2014, the Canon SX50. A wire sculpture of a monkey riding a bike. I edited in Topaz Studio 1/PSE 17 and added a distressed texture to it.
We were lucky to see three different monkeys in the area around our hotel. This lone Spider Monkey was captured in the "Thinking" pose!
Daring climb with bare hands and feet up this slippery metal pole.
Pyrmont Point, Sydney, Australia (Monday 25 January 2016)
Our endangered leaf-eating friend, being cared for at Cuc Phuong National Park. Taken during a vacation to Vietnam.
"Colors change: in the morning light, red shines out bright and clear and the blues merge into their surroundings, melting into the greens; but by the evening the reds loose their piquancy, embracing a quieter tone and shifting toward the blues in the rainbow. Yellow flowers remain bright, and white ones become luminous, shining like ghostly figures against a darkening green background."
- Rosemary Verey, The Scented Garden, 1981
I love the photo of the monkey - just looking at the evening.
Tarangire National Park, Tanzanian
"There grows the hours' ladder to the sun,
Each rung a love or losing to the last,
The inches monkeyed by the blood of man.
And old, mad man still climbing in his ghost,
My fathers' ghost is climbing in the rain. "
~Dylan Thomas
Samburu National Reserve
Kenya
East Africa
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The vervet monkey (Chlorocebus pygerythrus), or simply vervet, is an Old World monkey of the family Cercopithecidae native to Africa. The term "vervet" is also used to refer to all the members of the genus Chlorocebus. The five distinct subspecies can be found mostly throughout Southern Africa, as well as some of the eastern countries. These mostly herbivorous monkeys have black faces and grey body hair color, ranging in length from about 50 centimetres (20 in) for males to about 40 centimetres (16 in) for females.
In addition to very interesting behavioral research on natural populations, vervet monkeys serve as a nonhuman primate model for understanding genetic and social behaviors of humans. They have been noted for having human-like characteristics, such as hypertension, anxiety, and social and dependent alcohol use. Vervets live in social groups ranging from 10 to 70 individuals, with males changing groups at the time of sexual maturity. The most significant studies done on vervet monkeys involve their communication and alarm calls, specifically in regard to kin and group recognition and particular predator sightings.
The Grivet Monkey is only found in the Horn Of Africa. This one was seen in Awash, Ethiopia and approached closely as it watched us eating our al fresco meal.
Ok so we are not going to talk about how badly my legs need to be waxed (that will be dealt with tomorrow) or how translucently white I am (it is the Irish in me and Ill be damned if I can fix that quickly)...
But we can talk about how wacky and unexpected my Friday was and how this Sunday is my last day of anxiety knitting... Youpiee. Now let's hope it all works out and I can get my arse out of bed and to the office before 10:30am tomorrow... :)
This is a wild monkey and not photographed in captivity. The Green Monkeys (Chlorocebus sabaeus) also known as the Sabaeus Monkey found in Barbados originally came from West Africa approximately 350 years ago. It is amazing how many "human-like" characteristics and postures they have.
Grenade Hall Forest
Barbados
The green monkeys found in Barbados originally came from Senegal and the Gambia in West Africa approximately 350 years ago. About 75 generations have occurred since these monkeys arrived in Barbados and, as a result of environmental differences and evolution, the Barbados monkeys today have different characteristics than those in West Africa.
The monkeys are found mainly in the parishes of St.John, St.Joseph, St.Andrew and St.Thomas, where much natural vegetation and woodlands still exist. However, monkeys can also be seen traveling through hotel grounds in St.Peter and St.James.