surrounded by monkeys!

not long after pitching our tent at lake nkuruba...

...we looked up to find a tree full of colobus monkeys!

they resemble jumping tree skunks and have very long tails!

i thought they had a rather villainous appearance and was amused
at the furious pace with which they devoured leaves.

i think there were just as many vervet monkeys as well,
who occasionally wrestled with their colobus friends.

my favorite colobus monkey skill is jumping between trees.
as they grew tired of the leaves on one tree, they leaped one by one
to the branches of another. awesome!