⊙ Yang Huilin/Prose
This was more than forty years ago. I heard that the long-tailed langur of Motuo is not only large, but also numerous. Their footprints are almost all over the mountains and mountains of Metuo, where to find them? Fortunately, he met the Memba hunter Wangza (dbang-qrags), meaning "authority" who had returned from hunting, and heard that a few days ago he had encountered a group of long-tailed langur monkeys in the jungle of the Niela Tsangpo River, with more than a hundred of them! According to Wangza, the monkeys stayed in one place for three or four days before moving. So we immediately rushed to the Valley of the Niela Tsangpo River.
At 9 o'clock the next morning, we started climbing the mountain. Here, thorn vines are flying, ancient trees are towering in the sky, there are both trees up to 50 or 60 meters high, and there are low herbs that grow on the ground, interspersed with shrubs of different heights and heights. Some of the thick vines are wrapped around the big trees, some are leaning on the top of the canopy like a ramp, and some are built between two mountains, which is really dizzying... Climbing up a mountain beam, we began our search along the ridge. The long-tailed langur is also turning over the mountain at this time, and they play and bark as they walk, which is easy to find. And when it comes to resting at two or three o'clock in the afternoon, it is quiet. At that time, even if you pass near the monkey herd, it is easy to lose sight of it.
"Wow—" "Wow—" Suddenly in the distance came a sound like a child's cry, mixed with the "click" of a broken branch. Wanza told us that this was a contact signal when the monkeys were marching, afraid to disperse. If, as people approach the monkey herd, they suddenly hear a short scream, it is the alarm signal of the Monkey King. When resting at night, the Monkey King also has to go to the mountain beam to circle and use the signal to collect the group to retrieve the lost monkeys.
Pulling aside the tangled vines and passing through the dense forest of arrows and bamboo, the sound of the long-tailed langurs was getting closer and closer. "See!" In the jungle 20 meters away, a group of long-tailed langurs are foraging and frolicking. Sometimes they crouch on the rocks to catch the insects on each other's bodies and comb their hair; sometimes they climb to the trees like a gust of wind and pick ripe fruits; sometimes they jump vertically and horizontally on the canopy, climbing the branches and swinging...
Then, led by a silver-haired "Monkey King" climbing the verdant mountain. The Monkey King sat on a high place, vigilantly observing the movements around him. These monkeys gathered around the Monkey King, well-behaved and charming, some tickling and grooming him, and some holding bamboo shoots and tender grass to its mouth... The female monkeys who dragged the monkey cubs on their chests gave the best food to the baby monkeys...
This group of long-tailed langurs is 50 cm to 80 cm long, and its tail is about 100 cm long, which is brown; its face, palms and heels are black. We quietly touched it, thinking of taking a few photos in the monkey group, but we didn't expect to play with the monkeys for several hours to "hide", always only to hear their voices and disappear without a trace, this group of monkeys finally disappeared into the mountains of Motuo...
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