This little mama was especially noisy as she crunched away at whatever she was eating, dropping plenty of twigs and crumbs on the forest floor to betray her presence. She was a little less skittish than they normally are, probably because it was high tourist season for the waterfall visitors and the monkeys were used to being in closer proximity to the throngs walking up and down the road. I was able to snap away for a full minute before she decided to move on to higher ground.
And when she did I got a surprise. Not only was she sitting there in plain sight, but further into the brush was her entire family! In these pics you can see another monkey to her left, better hidden by the leaves in the jungle foliage. There were no fewer than three or four that went crashing through the treetops as they retreated.
Through the weeks we were there I discovered that this particular family had a routine; they stayed on the higher ground late in the day to eat, while in the morning they migrated to the river below.
Couple of other shots here. The clatter of the Bigger Cahoona evidently caught her full attention, as evidenced in the pic at bottom:
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