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On one if the safari in Bandhavgarh this small little monkey was playing on the route and the moment it saw jeeps coming in it ran to its mother ......
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Location : Bandhavgarh, Madhya Pradesh, India
Dist: 20 ft.
Swayambhunath (The Monkey Temple), one of the more iconic attractions in Nepal's capital city of Kathmandu. Holy Monkeys roam around the complex in hordes. Capture a quiet moment with a young monkey clinging on to it's mother.
On a geeky note: The Nikon 85mm f1.8 is the perfect companion for these type of shots. Light weight, amazingly sharp and lovely depth.
Kathmandu, Nepal, Oct 2012
The squirrel monkeys are the New World monkeys of the genus Saimiri. They are the only genus in the subfamily Saimirinae. The name of the genus Saimiri is of Tupi origin (sai-mirim or gai-mbirin < sai 'monkey' and mirim 'small'), and was also used as an English name by early researchers.
Squirrel monkeys live in the tropical forests of Central and South America in the canopy layer. Most species have parapatric or allopatric ranges in the Amazon, while S. oerstedii is found disjunctly in Costa Rica and Panama.
The common squirrel monkey is captured for the pet trade and for medical research but it is not threatened. Two squirrel monkey species are threatened: the Central American squirrel monkey and the black squirrel monkey are listed as Vulnerable by the IUCN.