DAILY PHOTO: Helping Hand Or Monkey Bite?: You Decide

Taken on March 24, 2014 at Nandi Hills.

One monkey was hanging off the fascia of Tipu Sultan’s old hunting lodge. The other was either being a helpful monkey–trying to help his brother up–or being a mischievous monkey–trying to make him fall.

You figure out which.

Here’s a photo from moments later.

Still can’t tell?

If you said they were in the middle of a mixed martial arts knock-down-drag-out, you were correct.  Here you can see the monkey who had been hanging getting a single-leg take-down on his tormentor.

FYI- For those who think one needs to get all “roided up” for strength building: Note this apparently puny monkey had the upper body strength to pull himself onto a roof while successfully fighting off an attack.

By B Gourley in Animals, India, martial arts, photographs, Photos, pictures, Tourism, travel, wildlife on March 24, 2014.