How I survived a near-attack by a band of wild monkeys....

After taking a tour of the farm (see below), we had a meeting with a man in the nearby village. As we leave the house, we see a monkey sitting on top of our SUV. I thought this was the coolest thing, until somebody said "oh no! they're all inside!" Sure enough, one of the truck windows was left open and there was about ten wild monkeys bouncing around inside. The driver pounded on the closed windows, and the monkeys jumped out and into a tree next to the car.

But as we went to get into the car, the monkeys snapped and got really aggressive towards us - hissing, and showing their teeth. We kind of backed away, and then noticed that one of the baby monkeys was having a hard time finding it's way out of the car, and the older ones were just trying to keep us away.

On a side note, if you ever get a chance to ask a person who grew up in rural India about their monkey stories, I strongly suggest you do.





These are the actual monkeys that had a problem with us...the top pic is actually from the internet, but pretty representative - kind of like a dramatic reenactment