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spider monkey

by Anand Narayanan

Gallery: WildlifePosted April 10, 201266 views4 comments
A peruvian spider monkey feeding on ripe fruits in Manu national park, Peruvian amazon. Spider monkeys are super agile and most of the pics i have of them is of blurry furry things flying in the canopy. Was happy to get one relatively still :biggrin:

It was late in the evening and fairly dark, thankfully it was on the fringe of a calm oxbow lake and enough light creeped in.

One thing peculiar to spider monkeys is that they virtually have no thumbs as you can notice here on close inspection. They have an awesome prehensile tail and can glide seamlessly across the canopy holding on with either a limb or tail. Unfortunately the one at the bottom is sticking its tail in the frame where it doesnt belong :mad:

They are not doing very well and are listed as being endangered.

Nikon D5000,70-300 VR @270mm, f7.1, 1/125s, iso 800.

Anand :wavey:

ps: been caught up with some work lately, will get back to participating soon.

Comments

4 comments
Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on April 10, 2012 at 5:11 PM
A very difficult subject in the environment it lives in, obviously. A good try at it, and you are to be congratulated. :toast:
Registered on July 24, 2006, 2741 Posts, 12349 Comments
Comment posted by David Schwaegler on April 10, 2012 at 8:51 PM
I think you did very well here, especially given the environment. The large image is a pleasure to view.
Registered on December 4, 2003, 232 Posts, 1652 Comments
Comment posted by Brad Hill on April 11, 2012 at 8:50 AM
Hi Anand,

Tough situation to get much more than a documentary image - so nicely documented! I find assessing the scale here interesting and a tad challenging - it's easy to imagine the leaves surrounding the main subject as smallish (complete with those red berries) and that thus the spider monkey is no more than size of your palm. Simply an optical illusion...but kind of fun!

Cheers...

Brad
Registered on May 29, 2007, 431 Posts, 6061 Comments
Comment posted by Lon Sharp on April 15, 2012 at 10:04 AM
I really like the interesting range of vegetation and the sense of place it provides. I wish the monkey were located a little differently or that the white tree trunk in the background not so close. Do you have more of these to share?
Registered on December 9, 2007, 258 Posts, 9892 Comments