Tuesday 24 March 2009

A new monkey for a friend

Going ga-ga over a baby. I'm dedicating this picture to a friend in government. We always have a good laugh about monkeys, big or small, fat or thin, tall or short, kurang ajar or not kurang ajar.

This particular one, as I understand it, is the non-native francois langur, a white side-burned black-leaf monkey found in Vietnam, central Laos and south-eastern China. This baby was abandoned by her mother soon after its birth at the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia, and was hand-raised by the zoo keepers. It has orange hair right now but the colour will turn black when the animal grows into adulthood.


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