Way back in I think October we went on a road trip into the hills east of Lake Volta. Daniel, a visiting Fulbright scholar, organized a bus load of us and we set out for an eco-resort. Daniel's partner and his young daughter where visiting, and the real point of the whole trip was to fulfill his daughter's desire to see monkeys.
So the highlight of the weekend was visiting a jungle reserve rich with tourist-friendly mona monkeys. Once considered sacred, and hence protected, their new-found protection is their ability to charm tourists.
Only steps off the road, and armed with bananas, we are swarmed by about 20 monkeys ready to disarm us, who play and climb all over us until they are too full of banana, and then will have nothing further to do with us.
Video courtesy of Richmond Kwesi
2 comments:
Very striking little fellows. And reasonably polite. Unless that's just the good PR clip...
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Yes, the other 45 minutes are a Hitchcockean nightmare of swarming, dismemberment, and general brutality. Not!
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