Musings of a Winter Wren

Friday, August 17, 2007

NO TOQUE EL MONO


Here Anonymous, a picture of the pregnant capuchin monkey that bit a tourist in Misahulli. This woman (a tourist from Quito) asked me to take a picture of her and the little beast. As I was framing the shot, she decided to put her hand on its head like it was some kind of animated dolly and it promptly turned around and bit her on the hand. Notice the monkey in the picture above, after the tourist left the scene (to have her hand amputated I assume). Do you see how it is eating something? It's gnawing on strands of raw meat and sinew. Who in their right mind would touch a wild monkey that is so obviously busy eating raw meat!?

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ha! Too bad you didn't get a shot during the bite. Thanks for sharing your life with us. Really.

8/22/2007

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Maybe it's just the angle you got, but I 'm pretty sure that I have never seen a monkey quite as ugly as this one.

8/23/2007

 
Blogger Winter Wren said...

It's a little scary, but if you click on the picture you'll get a better look at the monkey's cold, dead eyes. It's kind of like looking at a photo of Paris Hilton...

8/23/2007

 

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