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This photo was taken @ Jim Corbett in Dec '13. We spotted a Monkey family while on the safari and this young lad was kind enough to pose for me and gave me some good shots.
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Baby Orangutan
From Monkyworld.org Website
Monkey World assists governments around the world to stop the smuggling of primates from the wild.
At the Centre refugees of this illegal trade as well as those that have suffered abuse or neglect are rehabilitated into natural living groups.
Taken at London Zoo in April
My camera's autofocus has broken so everything has to be manually focused, pain in the ass when my eyesight is awful :(
You just haven't lived until you've heard a howler monkey!!! The loudest land animal on earth, it's quite an amazing sound. This one was in Belize, but you'll see them in Costa Rica or other nearby countries too.
We also saw howler monkeys from the tour boat. Unlike the capucin monkeys, the howlers didn't take food from the tourists. This was one of a troop of howlers feeding in the trees near the edge of the water. Shooting wildlife in trees from a moving boat isn't the easiest thing to do -- So many of my shots got ruined when the autofocus decided it preferred a branch or leaf to a critter....
Wikipedia: The howler monkeys (genus Alouatta monotypic in subfamily Alouattinae) are among the largest of the New World monkeys. Nine species are currently recognised.
Howler monkeys range in size from 56 to 92cm, excluding their tail which can be equally as long. Like many New World monkeys, they have prehensile tails. They have a lifespan of 15 to 20 years. These monkeys are native to South and Central American forests. They live in groups of usually about 18 individuals. Threats to howler monkeys include being hunted for food and captivity.
As their name suggests, vocal communication forms an important part of their social behavior. Specifically, the name comes from their distinctive loud barking whoop they make, which can be heard over considerable distances. (As correctly pointed out by William Henry Hudson in his novel Green Mansions, "howler" is a misnomer since the male's voice sounds rather like a powerful roar; female vocalisations sound like a pig's grunt). They have an enlarged basihyal or hyoid bone which helps them make their loud sound. They are considered the loudest land animal. Unlike other New World monkeys, both male and female howler monkeys have trichromatic colour vision.
These large, slow moving monkeys are the only folivores of the New World monkeys. Howlers eat mainly top canopy leaves, together with fruit, buds, flowers, and nuts.
They move quadrapedally and do not brachiate, usually holding on to a branch with at least two hands or one hand and the tail at all times. Their prehensile tails are strong enough to support the monkey's entire body weight, although they seldom do so. The first 2 fingers of each hand are set apart and are opposable to the other three. They very seldom leave the trees. They rest about 80 percent of the time and are considered the least active of all monkeys.
Howler monkeys live in groups where the number of females is greater than the number of males. Groups may have only one male or several males. Unlike most New World monkeys, juveniles of both genders emigrate from their natal groups, so neither adult males nor adults females in a group are typically related. Group size varies by species and by location, with an approximate male to female ratio of a male to four females.