The Vervet monkey sitting on the left is
named Tripod.
Tripod is one of the oldest bandits at the Vervet Monkey Foundation.
The monkey currently being groomed is named Jasmine.
Jasmine lives with her friend Pedro and her daughter Jezebel in
a Skunky troop intro enclosure.
This is Jezebel, Jasmine's daughter.
As you can see Tripod is missing an arm.
This is due to an incident that occurred
with an electrical pylon many years ago.
Tripod is a legend at the Vervet Monkey
Foundation. He mostly hangs out on his
own and he roams wherever he wants but
he has plenty of friends and gets
groomed all the time by the females in
the various enclosures
There are quite a few Bandit juveniles
but none of them have names
The adult female on the left is named
eyebrows and she can often be found
hanging out with her kids and their
juvenile friends
and here comes Coquelicot.
And sitting beside her is her child.
This is Amber she wasn't too pleased
with Eyebrows and her kids hanging
around her intro enclosure so she threw
some shade at Eyebrows and Eyebrows
returned the aggression with full force.
One of the juveniles became frightened
and latched on to Eyebrows.
Emily who's sitting behind eyebrows decided to come
help, but eyebrows was already on edge
because of Amber so she told Emily off
with a redirection of aggression and
then told Amber off some more.
There are more juveniles in the Bandit
troop than ever before and they love to cause mischief.
Often the number one cause of a leaky
pipe is a thirsty bandit
Family is essential in Vervet culture
and most of their days are spent
lounging and relaxing, enjoying their
time with one another.
The large male on the left is named Han
Solo and he is enjoying a very thorough
grooming by this young juvenile.
Just look at the concentration on that little guy's face.
While these two juveniles were grooming
Han Solo another juvenile approached
them from behind. The two who were
grooming were not okay with this
most likely because this third juvenile is of
a lower rank.
They gave some warning bites and sent the little one on her way but she quickly returned and stood her ground.
Eventually the other two caved and
started grooming her.
Han Solo then made his way over to join
Eyebrows and the kids hanging out in a tree.
The chattering in the background is
coming from the Robert troop monkeys who
are not too pleased to have the Bandits
sitting so close to their enclosure
While the Robert troop monkeys sit at
the fence watching.
A Bandit juvenile decides to test his limits.
Han Solo then stepped between a juvenile
and the Robert troop monkeys.
Having Han Solo around boosted the
juvenile's confidence and they all joined in on the fight.
Han Solo decided he had
had enough and went back up into the tree.
But the baby who started the
conflict was more worked up and began to scream.
This is when Eyebrows and another
female named Frida stepped in to fight.
There was a brief moment of redirection
of aggression from Eyebrows toward
Han Solo when he scared a juvenile as he was
jumping from the tree
After the conflict was over the Bandits
did what Vervets do best they
congratulated and groomed each other
and then made their way over to
Main Feed to reap the spoils of their victory.
Eyebrows went to town on some sweet potato
This is Marco, he had nothing to do with
the fight but he rewarded himself with a
fresh papaya and sat high on the wall
watching for intruders.
And poor Greg, no matter how hard he
looked, he just couldn't seem to find his favorite plate.
Greg finally gave up and
went home hungry and frustrated
