THE CRITTERS OF THE HIMALAYAS

There are many critters around here but the most, creative elusive, and smart, no no, not the tourist………… I mean the monkeys, those vivacious guys that inhabit these hills, have learned how to live side by side with humans as well as survive in their environment.


UPS THIS IS NOT THE ONE, OR IS IT???


They come in all sizes from little tinny babies to waist high ones, and they have developed many techniques to survive, like stealing food from vendors as well as tourist, because if you have food in your hands or in a bag you better be careful, as with the speed of lightning, they will take your food and run up the nearest tree.


BETTER MUCH BETTER, THIS IS THE ONE


Another trick that they have mastered is to tantalize the dogs and as soon as they start chasing them they will go up a tree and start throwing things back at the dogs, of course making them jump up and down trying to reach the critters. They are also masters of the high wire act, putting a shame the flying Wallendas ha ha ha, downtown they cross the streets aerially, walking/using the phone wires, to safely cross the streets, they know which cables are power lines and they wont use those, only the phone wire, so it is very funny to see them at any time of the day, doing the high wire act, I have not been able to get a picture of this act, but I hope to do it one day.


HOPE YOU LIKE THE HAIRY BEASTY


ANY SIMILARITY??


Humans don’t escape their abilities, depending in where one lives, you have to be alert to leave doors and windows closed as they will enter your room and create major havoc with your belongings, some friends of mine left one day the window open while going for dinner, and when they got back a copule of hours later, all their cloths were scattered all over the room, as they were females, they were a bit afraid, in case that the monkey was still inside, the funny part of the story, no the monkey did not steal their brassieres or try them on, ha ha ha, the clever monkey got into their medicinal supplies and opened all their small bags of vitamin C that they had, leaving a trail of vitamin C dust, ans some kind of foam, probably the cause of this powder hitting their saliva, the end of the story was that apparently the monkey got hooked on Vitamin C, and came back after that looking for more, so if you see a monkey hooked on vitamin C is probably this one.


GREAT HAIR DO


HE IS VERY STRONG


One serious aspect to these animals, is that they are wild and although people think that they are friendly and a pet, they are not, they can attack if provoked, specially if they have young ones with them, all they are trying to do is protect their little ones, but they can inflict serious bites and give you a good scared as they are extremely strong.


THERE ARE MANY OF THIS GUYS AROUND


BUT THIS IS THE NEIGHBORHOOD ONE

I discovered that one day, walking up one of the hills in a rainy day going to Tushita meditation center, I had my small backpack and umbrella, all of a sudden a band of about 5 monkeys came out of the bush and attacked me, I had to use my umbrella as a sword at the same time that I was trying to walk as fast as I could, without running to get out of the danger, which I did, the problem was that I had to go back the same way to get back to town, but that is another story, enjoy the pictures of one of these funny, clever animals that lives around my place, he actually lives in a nunnery across from me, I am sure that the nuns keep him well fed, he is waist high and very smart, when he is around, he always get the dogs of the neighborhood all excited, and they start chasing him up the trees, as any respectable monkey should have a name?? what do you guys think that we should name him???, please e mail me your suggestions, what should we call him??, and in the future I will let you know who won the name monkeys contest and the price.


ANY CLEVER NAMES FOR THIS GUY??