DONE PART 3

After the banana corner, they found their way to the left section of our garden. That must have been some tapioca plants that they were after. I had picked them up from a friend's house some months ago. But they kept coming trimming down the stems and took away the shoots which are good to eat. I actually hid them in this bush but they found out somehow.

This young one seemed to be in a real swinging mood. The plant was bent down, but did not break. Its leaves are used to get the green color for our delicacies...Malay cakes as we call them.




Busy helping themselves to the tapioca stems and notice the body...elongated, trimmed and slim..That's how I recognized them from the "good guys" group which are fatter, fuller and gentler. They seemed polite and tame and would come up to the windows waiting for food from us.



Still busy harvesting. They also helped themselves to the red helliconias (I am not so sure of the spelling) hiding inside the big bush. They had another fiasco. I have posted "Thirteen Against One" much earlier. That was them.



Its probably thinking what else to trim and slash down...pruning perhaps?

DONE! Part 2

a little fiasco with young banana plants

This afternoon-visitor seems to know exactly where to go once they are in our compound. The banana plant(s) seemed to be its favorite spot. Notice the young ones are being felled to the ground. The soft tuber seemed to be its food for the day.

AND once DONE, it turned its back on me and climbed up the fence towards its sanctuary...atop a huge tree...(I forgot its name). How convenient indeed. This happened after a few days of torrential fall (beginning of pre-monsoon season), when they could not find food.



mmmmmmmmm..........turning away from me?



This is the National Electricity Board substation situated just outside our compound...and our back yard...

Look at this, it acted like nothing had happened down there...climbing away innocently from the ruined plants...

All the happenings just took only a few minutes. BUT never mind, they must be very hungry. The lone monkey did not come alone, mind you. There were mummy monkeys, baby monkeys, daddy monkeys, brothers and sister...also came along. They were hungry...before I could snap their picture, they left in a haste when they sensed my presence from my bedroom window... SEE, I live with the nature in the heart of a newly announced City Of Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.

DONE!!!!!!!!!!Very neat and TOO Well Done

NEXT>>>>>>>>>>>>

Came the hooligan group mentioned in much much earlier postings...one apparently daring one, went up straight to the young and unripe fruits, tearing it off, skinning and putting it into its mouth. Suddenly, spitting out and onto the ground it got. Bitter, but of course it tasted bitter.

I just looked on, holding my little cam and wondering how many of those bananas would survive after all...

in action. caught red handed...ops! nope. it was gray. so it got away once done!

THIRTEEN AGAINST ONE

Believe it or not? For the past month, we have this group of not so friendly and not so civilised minkies dropping by. The other group which we considered civilised wouldn't even touch our potted plants except banana trees that fed them with young shoots and fresh new stems.

I saw an sms sent by Zaza..."Today we have different groups coming that sent everything flying from the shelf in the garage and ransacking things that are not crossing their paths. They look so fierce".

"Don't worry Ja, they are probably the new group that have just finished a new course next door, (at the training centre) in hooliganism and gangsterism"
"How do we tell if they are from different group? They look the same?"
"Of course you could. The other group has bigger mothers which carry little tots almost every other month. And they are quite polite".

Would you believe it or not? These fresh graduates, went berserk with things they just discovered in our garage and next door. Things came crashing down to the floor include bottles of battery water, car cleaning kits, engine oil, newspapers that were three feet high and of course the rusty mousy trap that has got moldy salted fish in it. Newspapers were there in case we could catch the newspaper collector that drove by at the speed of the lightning. Each bundle would earn us 5o cents, depending how big the size of his hand is.

After that part, the gala has not ended yet. Came the smaller ones, climbing the clothes hangers outside. They apparently snatched a few of our helper's clothes and strewn them all over the place. One bright pink blouse caught one minky's attention. It went up the tall tree outside my bedroom (the tree is outside our compound but the branches came down and over to my bedroom window) and excitedly trying to put it over its head. Then came down again still wearing it over its head...funny? Yes, but she was fuming and bemused.

While this other minky was busy with the pink blouse, a handful of them were seen going through my potted plants excited and aggressively. They broke most plants...in their pursuit to catch a huge toad that has been hibernating in my pot for so long. So amused was I that suddenly when they stopped, only realised, the toad was in its hand. It tried pulling the legs apart. Now that was not funny. The toad must have been in agony. But I couldn't help. Who would want to go out amidst wild monkeys who were overwhelmed in excitement.

The toad which was slippery, finally fell to the ground where the suds from the washing machine flow. The pain and fiercely harrowing experience must have scared the toad out of its life. The trauma sent his bruised body to another hide out which was not far from the other pot. When I counted, there were thirteen monkeys that were after one miserable defenseless toad.

Meanwhile a score of them were at my rooted plants in another plot. The plants were bent to the ground as they helped themselves to the ants eggs that were glued to the stems. Then another portion was attacked. They snapped some of my red and yellow helliconias. Eating them up and left the hard potions on the ground. There was a great fiasco going round that day.

Some big ones, came to the table which we put outside, jumping and pushing plastic chairs, up and down then up again like some kind of happy play ground. A huge one went up the grill to the sliding door and shook it so hard that the sound was similar to some demolition works that went on when the new road was reconstructed a few meters from here.

Now it is bit quiet but we still receive them from time to time. The decent group, just climb up and sit on the window ledge watching the food on our meal table.

The people from Jabatan Perhilitan came by a couple of weeks ago and we observed some of them are getting into smaller groups. Life with them around would be rush, rush, rush to our clothes lines and shutting the windows to avoid enforceable encounters with them and of course the flees they carry on their back!

This post was first published on the 12th July...

THE INVASION

Probably similar "visitor" had landed in our compound....I cannot recognise each n everyone...

That was not the only isolated episode when monkeys invaded our compound. Much earlier, I have already written about them. But this time, they split into groups, clever monkeys. You know why they are so very clever? Because they probably have "graduated" from the university nearby.

This time, the group is pretty violent and their sizes are enormous. Some carrying young newborns, some are male, naturally. The playful ones are doing sommersault on the ground and playing atop the roofs as well as our garden light. The pole now is shaky and they do not seem to give any bother because they enjoy playing on it. One would climb up while another pull its tail forcing it down. They seem to take their turn to reach the top.

Doesn't it sound like I am living next to the zoo or monkey sanctuary? It is right in the middle of urban living but they do not seem to have choices of leaving this hideout. Every corner is full of houses, condominiums and of course the prime university next door. They even invaded the campus's hostels, ransacking the students' rooms, bins and sit on people's cars each evening like their own. Practically, every nook and corner of the greens that are found within our vacinity, are automatically their "home".

This afternoon, the new group of bigger sized monkeys were on our roofs, planters box and on the grills of our sliding door. They appeared hungry. So, I told Harith's mom, sometimes I felt like going to the market and buy ripe bananas and bring home for them. But morden markets do not keep old and unwanted bananas. They only keep the ones ready for sale.

Anyway, I have my washing outside to bring in. So, slowly I opened the back door and kept wondering where they might have been. Half the load was taken inside without much interruptions. Suddenly I heard "pouring" rain from the roof!..OPs! It was one of the four big monkeys above my head that "showered" the roof. WoW! That was close. Scary as I was, I called out for Tash to shut the kitchen door. While I rushed to the front door. But I couldn't go in just yet. They were on the roof top, close to me. They gave me the creeps as I passed them.

Quickly I ran into the house. Not long after, "bang". Something fell off. Then I noticed they started invading my potted plants and creeping big money plants. The full grown money plants were gone within minutes, nicely chewed including some herbal plants. The remains were left on the car top . When they were gone (they were only next door to work on their litter bins), I crept out and saw my big pot was broken. The pieces are in the drain...

The plactic chairs stacked outside were also invaded. When they fell to the ground, the rude nosie woke Harith up. Already afternoon naps are difficult and problem time for him, this makes it worse. There he goes, "wek, wek, wek, ahek!". So, I summoned his mama who has just finished her zohor prayer. Before Harith's noise goes up to "fifth gear" she has to come to the rescue.

My! That was a tiring "monkey business" indeed.