It is rare to capture an encounter like this in a suburban garden and so it seems appropriate for it to be included in the Rare: Weekly photo challenge. Although vervet monkeys are attracted to infants and often solicit permission from monkey mothers to touch or even hold their infants, I think this encounter is rare as the mother is approached by another mother who is already nursing her own baby. Also she takes the baby without permission. To find out what happens see the full photo essay in the previous post at letting nature back in ★
August 21, 2016 at 11:26 pm
Wow, very cool to see this, much less capture it!
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August 22, 2016 at 11:45 am
Thanks Tina. Sadly, monkeys are persecuted in many places, including suburbia, and they are very wary when one lifts a camera. It takes luck and patience to photograph them. I enjoyed browsing your galleries and was pleased to see that you had two pics of vervets in your African gallery 🙂
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