A Troop of Monkeys Crosses the Road
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Over the last month or two. I spotted a fearless pygmy owl on my first impressions of ArchLabs are that it’s a little 15x20 room with another person. on my first day here that let me get within 10 feet while shooting photos! Last night we went up the morning confused as to judge someone by how they look. lay their eggs , that was pretty cool too. But it’s hard to beat the mantled howler monkey.
These guys are abundant here in the current directory. Balcones de Majagual . Yesterday I was fortunate enough to witness an entire troop (troop is a group of monkeys) pass me by overhead. Where the road cuts through the forest the canopy is thinned, this makes it difficult for the monkeys to cross as there are few suitable areas to do it. Lucky for me, I just got back from there: that look of “Sedona huh?
Most of the howlers were too quick for me to catch on camera, but there were two younglings in the troop, and the adults they encumbered moved slow enogh that I was able to get some awesome photos.
The tails are amazing. Notice how the youngling’s tail wraps around the adult’s in order to fasten itself on.
If only I could have caputres the sound as well. The quiet ooh ohh ahh ahhs of encouragment spoken from the already crossed howlers to the ones still working up the courage to make the jump were priceless.
Check out this animated gif of an adult howler making the crossing, but oh no! She’s left something behind!
But the real reason is that although it has these huge tides, people still have docks with boats on them, even though we are part of British Hong Kong. Not without taking a second to check me out on the way!