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I asked her(Not sure him or her) to smile. But she never did.
May be there is some teeth problem like Monalisa....
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Shot from Nandi Hills.
"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.
One monkey grooms another. There were very tame monkeys at all of the religious sites I visited in Kathmandu.
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On an Island near Langkawi.
She was not happy and tried to scare me when i touched her .. I would have been attacked really badly if i wouldn't have retreated slowly or had shown the animal any signs of being scared .... :P
This is a Zanzibar Red Colobus Monkey, also called Kirk's Red Colobus, and Poison Monkey. It is an endangered species, surviving only on Zanzibar, off the coast of Tanzania. We saw this beauty in the Juzani forest, and he put up with me and my camera.
I think we all could do with some warmth and sunshine. Well, I can't change the weather but I can take you back to sunny September 2012.
Araucaria araucana (commonly called the monkey puzzle tree, monkey tail tree, Chilean pine, or pehuén) is an evergreen tree growing to 40 metres (130 ft) tall with a 2 metres (7 ft) trunk diameter. The tree is native to central and southern Chile and western Argentina. Araucaria araucana is the hardiest species in the conifer genus Araucaria. Because of the great age of this species it is sometimes described as a living fossil.
It is the national tree of Chile. [read on]
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Chilenische Araukarie
Ich glaube, wir könnten alle etwas Wärme und Sonne gebrauchen. Naja, das Wetter kann ich nicht ändern, aber ich kann Euch mitnehmen in den sonnigen September 2012.
Die Chilenische Araukarie (Araucaria araucana Syn., A. imbricata, A. chilensis, Dombeya chilensis), auch Andentanne, "Schlangenbaum", Schuppentanne, Affenschwanzbaum oder Chilenische Schmucktanne sowie Monkey Puzzle Tree genannt, ist eine Pflanzenart, die zur Familie der Araukariengewächse (Araucariaceae) gehört.
Fossile Funde verwandter Arten der heutigen Araukarien datieren bis zu einem Alter von 90 Millionen Jahren (Gattung Wollemia), womit die Familie der Araucariaceae eine der ältesten Baumfamilien der Welt ist.
Die Chilenische Araukarie wurde in Europa durch den Biologen und Mediziner Archibald Menzies etwa im Jahr 1795 bekannt gemacht. Die englische Bezeichnung „Monkey Puzzle Tree“ rührt von einem Kommentar eines Engländers um 1800, der meinte, diesen Baum mit seinen dolchartigen Blättern zu erklimmen, sei selbst für einen Affen eine kaum lösbare Aufgabe (allerdings leben im natürlichen Verbreitungsgebiet der chilenischen Araukarie gar keine Affen). Auf Mapudungun, der Sprache der Mapuche, heißt der Baum pewen,[1] in hispanisierter Schreibweise Pehuén; diese Bezeichnung setzt sich im Englischen als Alternative durch. [weiterlesen]