This guy (I think…), a gray purple-faced langur monkey, visited us again. The pack of monkeys – there are five that we know of – visit us on occasion, and when they want to, they sure can move fast. Here he is, sitting on a power line just after the youngest one, about six...
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I finally got around to asking what kind of monkeys these were, and Fahim told me that our friend Sona believed they were gray langurs, of which there are several species. The only one I find referenced with Sri Lanka is the Tufted Gray Langur (Semnopithecus priam), but comparing Wikipedia’s pictures of the gray...
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It’s true, monkeys amuse me. As long as they don’t fling poo at or near me, that is. But happily, these haven’t. Yet. The worst they’ve done, so far, is to eat my lemongrass or leave mango pits on our balcony. Maybe. Except that we don’t know for a fact that it was the...
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For your information, these photos were taken with the purple-faced leaf monkeys (or purple-faced langurs) around 60-100′ away from me and my camera, so while they may not be the best photos in the world, they’re pretty good for the camera and distance. We have – at a minimum – four neighborhood monkeys. I...
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