Comments on: From Bangalore to Ooty http://wackytravels.com/wordpress/2007/10/21/from-bangalore-to-ooty/ Here Heather and I can document our travels abroad Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:49:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: trinette http://wackytravels.com/wordpress/2007/10/21/from-bangalore-to-ooty/#comment-173 trinette Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:08:55 +0000 http://wackytravels.com/wordpress/2007/10/21/from-bangalore-to-ooty/#comment-173 How fun!!! I love animals! Did they monkey's throw their poo at you? HEHE! How fun!!! I love animals! Did they monkey’s throw their poo at you? HEHE!

]]> By: Heather http://wackytravels.com/wordpress/2007/10/21/from-bangalore-to-ooty/#comment-172 Heather Sun, 21 Oct 2007 15:41:56 +0000 http://wackytravels.com/wordpress/2007/10/21/from-bangalore-to-ooty/#comment-172 I did some fancy research to find out exactly who this guy is: <IMG SRC="http://wackytravels.com/~bob/ooty/bin/images/images/BVZ_2029.jpg"> and I found that he is actually a Hanuman Langur, named after a Hindu Monkey-god, or more commonly known as a Gray Langur. These bad boys can live up to 20 years and have tail lengths between 69cm and 101cm (~27-40 inches, yikes). That’s a pretty long tail considering their body height ranges from 51cm to 78cm for the larger males. Lets see, I also found out that they live in groups of 11-60, each group dominated by one alpha-male. While we didn't see any groups as large as 60, we definitely saw that they hang out and eat in groups - in our case, in the middle of the road and nearby shoulder :) We also saw multiple groups of these guys: <IMG SRC="http://wackytravels.com/~bob/ooty/bin/images/images/BVZ_1798.jpg"> who are Macaque monkeys, and are apparently, after humans, the second most-widespread species in the world. Now that’s a lot of monkeys! We see these monkeys here in Bangalore as well, so they aren't quite as fascinating as the Langurs, but still pretty neat. I've even seen them walking along the perimeter walls of our community, fun stuff. Did we mention we saw an elephant today?!? We saw a real live wild elephant this morning, which was so incredible. He (I assume, really have no idea) appeared to be chowing down on some breakfast, so cool :) Oh yeah, you can search for either type of monkey, and find out more information if my mini-book report wasn't enough fun to read! I did some fancy research to find out exactly who this guy is: and I found that he is actually a Hanuman Langur, named after a Hindu Monkey-god, or more commonly known as a Gray Langur.

These bad boys can live up to 20 years and have tail lengths between 69cm and 101cm (~27-40 inches, yikes). That’s a pretty long tail considering their body height ranges from 51cm to 78cm for the larger males. Lets see, I also found out that they live in groups of 11-60, each group dominated by one alpha-male. While we didn’t see any groups as large as 60, we definitely saw that they hang out and eat in groups - in our case, in the middle of the road and nearby shoulder :)

We also saw multiple groups of these guys:
who are Macaque monkeys, and are apparently, after humans, the second most-widespread species in the world. Now that’s a lot of monkeys! We see these monkeys here in Bangalore as well, so they aren’t quite as fascinating as the Langurs, but still pretty neat. I’ve even seen them walking along the perimeter walls of our community, fun stuff.

Did we mention we saw an elephant today?!? We saw a real live wild elephant this morning, which was so incredible. He (I assume, really have no idea) appeared to be chowing down on some breakfast, so cool :)

Oh yeah, you can search for either type of monkey, and find out more information if my mini-book report wasn’t enough fun to read!

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