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Subject: [Leica] Lion-tailed Macaque
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 09:24:39 +0530
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Philippe, Tina, Ric, Jim N, Kyle & Luis,
Thanks for looking and commenting.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 4:06 AM, Lluis Ripoll Querol <
lluisripollquerol at gmail.com> wrote:

> Fantastic set Jayand, my favorites are the wto first but the whole set is
> not only very good pictures, it represents a good knowledge of their life
>
> Cheers
> Lluis
>
>
> El 03/09/2010, a las 12:26, Jayanand Govindaraj escribi?:
>
>  My trip to the rainforest was primarily to see the Lion-tailed Macaque, a
>> monkey endemic to the rainforests of the  Western Ghats mountain range  in
>> South India, and one of the rarest primates in the world, only an
>> estimated
>> 3000 or so survive in the wild. Why it ended up being called Lion-tailed
>> instead of Lion-maned eludes me, because its silver gray mane is far more
>> spectacular than its admittedly lion like tail. Luckily we got close to a
>> troop, and they did not seem bothered in the least - this being the
>> monsoons, the weather and light was fairly miserable, and most shots are
>> at
>> ISO 800 and above:
>>
>> A good scratch:
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Rainforest/_JGR3583.jpg.html
>>
>> An infant:
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Rainforest/_JGR3525.jpg.html
>>
>> On the lookout:
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Rainforest/_JGR3637.jpg.html
>>
>> In the habitat:
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Rainforest/_JGR4001.jpg.html
>>
>> High Key (with the tail) :
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Rainforest/copy1.jpg.html
>>
>> Comments & criticism welcome, as always.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Jayanand
>>
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