The adults have dark grey fur and the paler tips give a silvery appearance. The infants are a contrasting orange colour. These arboreal monkeys eat leaves, shoots, fruits and flowers. A Malay man was selling bundles of beans to feed the monkeys. It was quite surprising to see that the macaques mostly kept away. Normally macaques are quite aggressive and opportunists.
See 2nd album Sept 2011.
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My favourite monkey. The young one is not a baby, but a teenager already (head has changed colour). The baby ones are so extremely cute. From an evolutionary point of view it makes sense that the babies have a different color, so the mother can easily spot her offspring. So why is it not universal?
ReplyDeleteHm.. on second thought, they can also be easily spotted by predators...:-)
Hmm what colour do you suggest human babies should be!!!!
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