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I took this last summer at the Montgomery Zoo. I was looking through my archives this morning and just thought that this guy looked alot like how I've been feeling lately. Aren't the winter time blues just the suckiest?
There's a surprisingly bright and almost Mediterranean feel to this photo of a Monkey Puzzle tree.
This is my 500th photo. There's a theme (in two parts). Do you know what it is?
They say that nothing is more important than family. It seems that we share something with these guys.
Monkey Forest, Ubud, Indonesia.
Isn't this little Vervet monkey the cutest little guy? They can be pretty cheeky fellows though, even climbing into unattended cars when windows are left open.
The family enjoys the sun on a rock in a mangrove jungle, lucky that we had a boad....the big boss looks not very friendly, and he follows our boat for a while...
“It was at this moment that Pinky spotted the Cinema Monkey! The Cinema Monkey who had so long been harassing the ladies of the town for peanut cones. There it was, loping its way towards them! Hai Rama, how on earth could they possibly have forgotten? Coming to the movie without strong and able chaperons! This would have to happen to them. The monkey came closer. He was so bold, he showed not the slightest trepidation. Any human thief would be feeling a little awkward, robbing like this in broad daylight. The monkey’s brown eyes were cold and cruel, red-rimmed and fixed firmly upon them. In a rush of terror, her heart falling into black nothingness, Pinky shouted: ‘Run, run, run. Run, Ammaji. Drop the ice cream and run!’
But Ammaji, who had just been handed a nice chocolate cone by the Hungry Hop boy, ran with the cone – not that this mattered, for the monkey ignored her and ran after Pinky instead, even though she was without any food products whatsoever. He grabbed hold of her dupatta and held tight as she screamed like a train and pounded down the bazaar street, followed by the gallant Hungry Hop boy, who had been aroused from his usual placid state by their cries of alarm. After all, it was not as though he did not know how to behave in such situations. He too was a regular at the cinema.
Now, inexplicably, for reasons best known to herself, Ammaji decided in the midst of all this confusion, this raised dust and running, to take a bite of her ice-cream cone. As she did so, the dentures, which had been unsettled by so much activity, were dislodged from her gums. Stuck in the ice-cream, they leered at her horribly like a ghastly cartoon: skeleton teeth mocking, beckoning from the chocolate mound, an affront to her old age.
Horrified, Ammaji dropped the cone and mistaking it for his favourite peanuts in a roll of paper, the monkey turned his attention towards her, caught hold of the denture-laden cone and rushed towards a tree.
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And remembering his duties, the Hungry Hop boy went at the creature, screaming and yelling, waving two sticks in such an alarming manner that even this dreadful monkey, disgusted at finding no peanuts, and a little intimidated, dropped the cone, raced over the roofs of the shops and disappeared. The Hungry Hop boy retrieved the dentures from a melting pool of chocolate, and delivered them, carefully balanced on the end of a stick, to Ammaji.
Pinky cold not remember being so mortified in all her life. There she was, looking like a sweeper woman, with her grandmothers dentures being displayed in public, first atop an ice-cream cone being borne away by a monkey, and then dangling humiliatingly on the end of a stick. What a spectacle they had made of themselves. A cheering crowd had gathered to watch the fun. But the Hungry Hop boy treated the whole occasion with a nonchalance that made Pinky weak with thankfulness.”
~ Kiran Desai ~
From “Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard”
Published by Penguin Books ISBN 0-571-21895-4
Apologies for the length of this... I happened to have just read the book for book club ... and I saw this monkey in the Theosophical Gardens, Chennai .... it is the only monkey there. So everything is coming up monkeys just now. ;)
Lop Buri is an interesting town of 153 kilometers north of Bangkok. It was one of the oldest capitals of the Khmers who expanded their power to the town of Lawo and Lop Buri at the beginning of the 10th century and ruled over the area until the middle of the 13th century when the Thais, who had already migrated from the North and had settled down in this country, fought against them and declared the independence of the Thais. Since then Lop Buri has been ruled by the Thais. Many monuments in Khmer style were constructed in Lop Buri such as the Hindu Shrine, Phra Kan Shrine etc. These monuments still exist in abundance.
In 1664, King Narai, a King of Ayutthaya, made Lop Buri the second capital with the help of French architects. Therefore, the architectural style of Lop Buri in the reign of King Narai was half Thai and half western as can be seen from the Royal Palace, the Royal Reception House etc.
Lop Buri covers an area of 6,199 square kilometers and is administratively divided into nine Amphoes and two King Amphoes: Muang, Ban Mi, Chai Badan, Khok Charoen, Khok Samrong, Phatthana Nikhom, Tha Luang, Tha Wung, Sa Bot, King Amphoe Lam Sonthi and King Amphoe Nong Muang.
monkeys familly in a park at Asia
The golden monkey's eyebrows, characteristic of many species of Cercopithecus can be seen here. Photo by Paul Thomson/ AWF.
I found this thing next to the small local supermarket, put it in a bicycle seat and snapped this photo.
The Hot Monkeys team is made up of University of Waterloo alumni. Formed in 2004, we are part of a bigger Hot Monkey’s organization/cult in which we enjoy other sports like floor hockey, soccer, snowboarding and ultimate Frisbee. We also like to hold group potlucks, eat out, have 90’s dance parties and go clubbing together.
Learn more about our players:
Andy Yu
Favorite Volleyball Move: Risking his body for the ball; Diving across the floor, slamming against the wall.
Favorite Candy: Sour Cherries
Justine Wong
Favorite Volleyball Move: Pushing with Andy for 2nd ball
Favorite Candy: Swedish Berries
Sam Wong
Favorite Volleyball Move: The Sam Formation One.
Favorite Candy: Fuzzy Peaches
Jennifer Ng
Favorite Volleyball Move: Getting confused on positioning and mixing up all the girls.
Favourite Candy: Super Sour Jube Jubes.
Jasvinder Singh
Favourite Volleyball Move: Bumping/grinding into Lily when going up for a block Favourite Candy: Big Feet.
Lily Luon Leung:
Favourite Volleyball Move: Please see Jasvinder’s comment.
Favourite Candy: Fried Eggs