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I heard the complaints about color pooling. I understood them. But I never really felt the pain until I knit these little buggers. Shown unblocked, after being worn in my sneakers all day. :-)
pattern: Monkey by Cookie A. for Knitty
yarn: Colinette Jitterbug in Castagna
Yorkshire Wildlife Park
Fascinating facts
The squirrel monkeys are the New World monkeys of the genus Saimiri. They are the only genus in the subfamily Saimirinae.
Squirrel monkey fur is short and close, coloured olive at the shoulders and yellowish orange on its back and extremities. Their throat and the ears are white and their mouths are black. The upper part of their head is hairy. This black and white face gives them their German name, 'skull monkeys'.
Squirrel monkeys grow to 25 to 35 cm, plus a 35 to 42 cm tail. They weigh 750 to 1100g. Remarkably, the brain mass to body mass ratio for squirrel monkeys is 1:17, which gives them the largest brain, proportionately, of all the primates.
Unlike the other New World monkeys, their tail is not used for climbing, but as a kind of "balancing pole" and also as a tool. Their movements in the branches are extremely speedy.
They live together in multi-male/multi-female groups with up to 500 members. These large groups can, however, occasionally break into smaller troops.
They have a number of vocal calls, including warning sounds to protect themselves from large falcons, which are a natural threat to them. Their small body size also makes them susceptible to predators such as snakes and felids.
The mating of the squirrel monkeys is subject to seasonal influences. Females give birth to young during the rainy season, after a 150- to 170-day gestation.
Photographed is a mother monkey climbing a tree as its baby looks at me curiously. This was shot at Bandipur National park near Mysore, India.
"Spectacled Langur" monkeys seen on multiple days at a wild preserve close to small city of Prachuap Khiri Khan, Thailand. There are no fences and they're not in a zoo so these are basically wild monkeys, however they're living at a protected area of a forested mountain and the base at its bottom where they receive daily handouts, supplementing their leaf diet. Besides the name Spectacled Langur, they are also known as the "Dusky Leaf-eating Monkey", as they are a monkey that does eat vegetation. They are free to roam and I chanced upon some up in a tree about half kilometer across a field area, where they were eating the red flowers on this tree. They seem to come out of the forest daily to the feeding area and there are a few stations set up for that, plus a large bowl filled with water for drink. Perhaps that may not be good for wild monkeys but it does help organize it and the locals would otherwise just bring handouts anyway. Then they also nap in the trees right there.
Wonderful to observe and you can approach very close, and they seem to have a very calm nature, although I'm no monkey expert. Where I watched, hardly any aggressive behavior that I'd seen in the far more common Thai macaque monkeys; not much competing for food. Mothers do keep their young very close at hand, and I read that females may share baby duties and I did see babies being passed, whereas I saw the mothers keeping any other monkeys away.
As you can see in photos, baby Spectacled Langurs are born with bright orange hair which then turns grey, and light skin which turns black except for the face features.
Rathinda is a monotypic butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae. Its one species, Rathinda amor, the monkey puzzle
The Toque Macaque (locally known as Rilawas) is an monkey species endemic to Sri Lanka, and a large part of Polonaruwa, an ancient capital city to the country's north east.
The most distinctive feature of these monkeys, apart from their pink faces, is their hair. They all seem to have neatly clipped fringes which, along with their other human-like features, makes them almost comical to look at. That is, until they stare straight at you.
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