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The numerous tourists in Kanching Falls have, not surprisingly, attracted troops of monkeys, each looking for an easy meal.
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Canon 550D + Sigma 70-300 mm f4-5.6 APO DG MACRO
f/5.6
ISO-400
1/60 sec
300 mm
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This is the Black-crowned Central American Squirrel Monkey (Saimiri oerstedii oerstedii). It is restricted to a few lowland forests in southern Costa Rica and Panama and is listed as endangered by the IUCN. It occurs in less than 1500 square miles of forest and loss of its habitat is still occurring. They move around in groups eating leaves, fruit, nectar, insects, even lizards. The body is less than 30cm but the tail is longer, up to 40cm. They weigh well under a kilogram. Most South American monkeys use their prehensile tails to climb with but Squirrel Monkeys only use the tail for balance. I think it has a really cute and endearing face but its resemblance to a skull gives it the name Death's-head Monkey in at least four European languages. I took this photograph from a boat en route to Corcovado National Park in Costa Rica.
This little cutie was hard to catch still. He was running around or hanging from his mother's stomach. The enclosure was dim so lighting was not good and hard to catch a fast moving little monkey
Random drawing, not the best, but I'm always looking for the next thing to do in glass---not sure though.
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