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Posted by coolsteel27 on 2010-08-03 23:29:07
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This Gentleman came through our balcony some days back. I guess one of the sliding doors was sligtly open he made a grand entry opened our fridge picked up a bunch of rotis and made a breakfast of them by eating them. when we was eating we closed the sliding door and both Ananth and aakarsh were watching hin. Aakarsh went closer to the door and he came running towards him which scared the poor baby . It was a exciting morning :).
Red Colobus Monkey in The Gambia.
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A monkey is any member of either the New World monkeys or Old World monkeys, two of the three groupings of simian primates, the third group being the apes. The New World monkeys are classified within the parvorder Platyrrhini, whereas the Old World monkeys (superfamily Cercopithecoidea) form part of the parvorder Catarrhini, which also includes the apes. Thus, scientifically speaking, monkeys do not form a "natural group", in that the Old World monkeys are actually more closely related to the apes than they are to the New World species. There are 264 known extant species of monkey. Because of their similarity to monkeys, apes such as chimpanzees and gibbons are often called monkeys in informal usage, though biologists don't consider them to be monkeys. Conversely, due to its size (up to 1 metre) the Mandrill is often thought to be an ape, but it is actually an Old World monkey. Also, a few monkey species have the word "ape" in their common name. Because they are not a single coherent group, monkeys do not have any particular traits that they all share and are not shared with the remaining group of simians, the apes.
Yes you guessed it ... or maybe you didn't. What we had been searching for, Antonio my guide and me on my request (see commentary in earlier pics if you missed them), was monkeys. Antonio had told me there were two species we might come across if lucky. In this Yucatan forest there were howler monkeys and spider monkeys. And it was to be our day. We did find howler monkeys. Sadly though they were high in the canopy mosty hidden by foliage apart from little patches of dark fur and the lazy fellows were all asleep probably after a meal. But amazingly we also found a pair of spider monkeys. These guys were very active, moving around feeding on some kind of fruits and still hard to photograph. But I'm happy to say I did get a couple of decent shots.
A Japanese Macaque (snow monkey) at Jigokudani Monkey Park in Nagano prefecture, Japan.
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Capuchin monkeys are tree-dwelling New World monkeys that live in central and southern America. These intelligent and clever monkeys use tools such as stones to crack open nuts, shellfish and crabs. Their abillity to be easily trained gave rise to their exploitation as organ grinder monkeys. They were named by explorers after their resemblance to an order of Catholic friars, the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin.