Animal Sunday Photography ~ 2 Monkeys of South Africa @homeartpictures
South Africa has two species of monkeys, both are found in KwaZulu-Natal, where I live. Vervet Monkeys visiting daily around the garden find fruit, berries and flowers. Not to mention the bird feeder with seeds and brown bread for the birds, if the monkeys arrive tough luck to the birds, they take it all.
When visiting St Lucia Estuary, northern part of the province you will find the Samango Monkey living in the forested area, whilst visiting we have always had Vervet monkeys coming through suburbia, I have never noticed Samango monkeys come into town.
Samango Monkey
Colouring of the Samango is slightly different to the Vervet, they are bigger in size by about 2-3 kilograms. Males have a harem social structure, females and subadult monkeys live together as families.
Samango Monkeys are found in other regions of Africa, here in South Africa more along the coastal belt in areas that suit them, St Lucia being one area and in the Afro-montane forests of Mpumalanga.
Vervet Monkey
Smaller in size, mischievous in character, live in large troops that break into smaller troops when males leave at puberty to start their own troop. Vervet monkeys are found in many regions of our country.
Time to use the putt-putt course for some fun and grooming!
Beautiful long tail for jumping through the trees, this youngster keeping a close eye out for any sudden moves.
Vervet moving along our garden wall, yes that was the last of the bird food still being tucked away.
Other than the size of these two monkeys, colouring of a Vervet being slightly more silver/grey, the black of the face on the Vervet is more predominant with the white eyebrows, these slight differences don't make an impact until when seeing them in the wild, you realize they definitely have ways of living to tell them apart.
Photography is my own, taken with Canon PowerShot A530
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I remember those monkeys well from when I stayed in Durban a few years ago. They really are every where. One still got into our kitchen and stole a loaf of bread. It was quite funny watching him take two slices out and put it together as if he was making a sandwich.
When the troops go through you have to watch them they do take to the easy life of stealing quite quickly @jusipassetti I still love watching them.
Eek! I would be screaming for sure!
Chase them out with a couple of hand clapping and they run off @fitinfun the males, especially loners you need to be a bit more wary of.
Great post Joan! Thank you. Nice to see fellow South Africans here. @ouma-izi is my Aunt π
Great to meet you @bernardtjames I have visited both yourself and Aunt and dropped an invitation to join the South African gang on Discord, meet and chat with locals at #teamsouthafrica
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Wow! Thank you for bringing me to South Africa, and introducing the two different species of monkey. We used to have a monkey in my grandparents home, and I grew up fascinated by monkeys. Thank you so much for this article. π
Some love them and others don't, I think they are cute @gingbabida
That is so cool to have monkeys come visit you!! I've only seen monkeys in a zoo. Thanks for sharing the great pictures and info!
Monkeys are entertaining to sit and watch @derekrichardson
It's amazing to think you would see monkeys in the suburbs! These both have such lovely coats and I feel like I would want to pet them - not wise, I'm sure!
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We have a place called CROW where hurt monkeys are taken, volunteers work there and help hand raise babies @fitinfun always an option to be hands on!
I find it amazing that you take all these photographs yourself, @joanstewart. And I enjoy this kind of post with the short bit of text between photos that capture my attention. I actually digest the nuggets of information with which you supply us.
Thank you.
Really an area you must bring the family down to visit @reonlouw you will see the hidden nuggets all around you, in real life!
lovely captions ,, i am so in love with your posts ,, they are so intellectualy structured ..... from kryptonia @everdope
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Sometimes, you just see monkey behave like human being, the way they eat, play and perform all of there activities amazes me, well I love this post, it shows that you really love monkey. π Upvote and comment from kryptonia @jacobzeema
They do behave like people, love, fight and play @jacobzeema
I used to live in Cape Town, and we had baboons... those things would come through our neighborhood and go through our trash. They were quite the pests :-)
Baboons I am very wary of @kimmiecfields Cape Point and places where people visit they can be a problem with stealing and attacking.
So cute. I hear they are little scoundrels, but they look so adorable!
We live in their surroundings @houseofcouchie
true that. We have a family of 3 wild bobcats, that we live in their surroundings. They think my cat is lunch though...so i often am out there yelling at them to go away. it is kind of scary...
Love it, Joan. Great photos too. Thanks for featuring the monkeys.
Those monkeys in Japan are very clever too @leftyronbo wonder who lost their phone.....
Wow, monkeys will visit in your home. In our place, we only see monkeys in the zoo or zafari.
Mine stay in the garden most time @rubelynmacion
i love animals, they are my friends at all. Love your post!
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Also love all animals, they make the world a better place @ziggypepper
Thanks for sharing this info @joanstewart. I love animals and these monkeys are so cute and neat as well. True, I can't tell them apart. They look almost the same in the photos.
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I like animals so much.
The Samongo Monkey is so cute. Vervet money isn't bad. I haven't seen them before maybe because I haven't been to SouthAfrica, but would really love to see them someday.
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They are cute, animals show us a funny side of life @ammyluv
wow your photos are simply amazing. thanks for sharing my friend @joanstewart!!
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