Posts tagged monkey

Baby mantled howler having a snooze. (Panama)

Still recovering from the lost hour…

Mother mantled howler playing air guitar to her baby. Chiriqui, Panama.

This summer I got a call to go out to Fauna to photograph Sophie as she was quite ill. We were all concerned she was going to pass away, but, she managed to recover and is still running the monkey house! (I did get some wonderful shots of her.) We were just two old ladies hanging out eating nuts.

faunachimps:

This is Ms Sophie, a cinnamon capuchin and the matriarch of the monkey house. Click here to find out more about Sophie or to help the primates living at Fauna.

I once met a Vervet monkey with one blue eye…(I kid you not-click to enlarge) I wrote him this little freak anthem.

njwight

Monkey monkey
You look wrong
mixed-up eyes
just don’t belong.
 
What a sight!
What’s the story?
One blue eye
in all its glory?
 
Are you weird?
A monkey freak?
An oddity?
A furry geek?
 
Or maybe you’re
a special kind
and one blue eye 
is quite refined?
 
Monkey monkey
you’re no fool.
Your one blue eye 
is pretty cool!
        ••
NJ Wight

The muffin thief.

White-faced capuchin sneaking a drink in the mangroves of Costa Rica. He would stretch his long arm down into the water, scoop up a handful and then drink from his palm. I was fascinated with his ling fingers.

Sophie is quite old and her health has been suffering a little lately. This was my first chance to photograph her as she has always been inside. I am struck by how much character her tiny face has. It is astonishing to me. She looks like a little old lady. I am so grateful I get a chance to volunteer here.

faunachimps:

This is Ms. Sophie, the matriarch of the monkey house at Fauna. She is a charming cinnamon capuchin with such an incredibly emotional face. She shares the house with Newton, a rhesus macaque.

So much character in their hands. And they can be so sneaky too! :-)

faunachimps:

Chimps have incredible hands! Like us humans, they have four fingers and opposite thumbs….. (read more at http://faunachimps.tumblr.com/post/23791095518/chimps-have-incredible-hands-like-us-humans-they  )

Daylight Savings, just sayin’.

Show of hands…and feet!