Far from a great shot technically, but I wanted to share this image I took on my first trip to Uganda of a crippled vervet monkey. She may have been missing both of her back legs from mid-shin down, but that didn’t stop her from doing all that the other monkeys were doing. And she could actually move pretty fast hopping around on just her front legs. Where there’s a will. Nikon D700 with Nikkor 70-200mm lens (at 105mm) ISO 400, f/3.2 at 1/1000th of a second.
I could not be more inspired right now. Unless it turned out the monkey was the Valedictorian of it’s high school, in a small, conservative Texas town where everyone believed that a vervet monkey with no hind legs would not amount to anything, Then I would be more inspired. But there’s no photographic evidence that happened.
Hi Sean, I’ve been away, so I’m just catching up on your posts. When we were in Africa, we saw some baboons with similar injuries. We were told that many of the small primates get caught in illegal traps and lose some limbs. Perhaps this is what happened to this plucky guy. Good for him to be so adaptive!
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Far from a great shot technically, but I wanted to share this image I took on my first trip to Uganda of a crippled vervet monkey. She may have been missing both of her back legs from mid-shin down, but that didn’t stop her from doing all that the other monkeys were doing. And she could actually move pretty fast hopping around on just her front legs. Where there’s a will. Nikon D700 with Nikkor 70-200mm lens (at 105mm) ISO 400, f/3.2 at 1/1000th of a second.
Wow! Makes me feel dumb for complaining about a stiff neck.
I could not be more inspired right now. Unless it turned out the monkey was the Valedictorian of it’s high school, in a small, conservative Texas town where everyone believed that a vervet monkey with no hind legs would not amount to anything, Then I would be more inspired. But there’s no photographic evidence that happened.
Hi Sean, I’ve been away, so I’m just catching up on your posts. When we were in Africa, we saw some baboons with similar injuries. We were told that many of the small primates get caught in illegal traps and lose some limbs. Perhaps this is what happened to this plucky guy. Good for him to be so adaptive!