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Nature Note From Mhow: When the Langurs came calling...

May 25 2008 | Views 211 | Comments (8)

Mhow, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India. Saturday May 24 2008. Afternoon. A group of five... Expand

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Dev Kumar Vasudevan posted 1 month ago

Hi ro... thanks for the visit... and now let us see the results of your Nikon D80...

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roba posted 1 month ago

cute, they are...

Hey, got my Nikon D80 finally....

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Dev Kumar Vasudevan posted 3 mnths ago

Hi CB... thanks for the lovely quotations.... I am lucky to be living in a small town where I am constantly in touch with the 'small' things without which life would lose its beauty...
and sharing the images of the beauty I see adds to the joy... regards... Dev

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CaravanBpl posted 3 mnths ago

I saw this message in your pictorial post-

The best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others. –Carlo Dossi

and

In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams and the stars of midnight. -Rabindranath Tagore

and summing up your approach to life (that is, how I am perceiving you):

To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life. -John Burroughs

warm regards

~CB

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Dev Kumar Vasudevan posted 3 mnths ago

Hi Bunty... that langur was a real langur coz he left a charming lady like you and went to someone else's room ... jokes apart it is sad when one hears of a langur attacking people... they do it because many a time stones are thrown at them. If I remember rightly government offices in delhi were facing a monkey menace ( I do not remember which breed of monkeys it was) and the solution found was to bring a stronger male from another species to shoo them away....
I also remember hearing of a girl cycling on a mhow road and she felt a thump on the cycle carrier when she looked back there was a langur as a pillion rider...
Must have been one hell of an experience....
thanks for the visit and the comment.. .dev

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Dev Kumar Vasudevan posted 3 mnths ago

Hi Geetha... Langurs are a persecuted lot... and very often one hears the sad news of some simian-human conflict... thanks for the visit and the comment.. regards... dev

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geethamanian posted 3 mnths ago

HI Dev Kumar Vasudevan,

The clarity of pictures is simply amazing. In our colony we have a group of them roaming around with their babies hodling on to them tightly.Thanks for a good post.

Geetha Manian

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Buntys Banter posted 3 mnths ago

good pics Dev Babu.

I have seen one from real close in Panchagani a few years ago when a group had decended in the back of the hotel I was staying. This fellow who I encountered (a strapping male) came up to our balcony, peeped into our room, sat on the chair for a while and gapped at us and then went off to find better rooms with eatables and more interesting people in it.

Bunty.