Adult lion-tailed macaque looking at the electrocuted infant in Valparai DSC 2519

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Summary[edit] Description: Adult lion-tailed macaque looking at the electrocuted infant in Valparai. This one and few other individuals giving different kind of call and try to pull the infact which was stuck and electrocuted infant. Later forest deparment personal came and pull down the infant to do burry. One particular adult kept watching this and after they kept the infant on the ground came around it and spent some ib the nearby tree and on the ground. While the department personal moved bit away from that place this individual darted and grabed the dead infant and carried back to the forest fragment. Location given is approximate but within the Puthuthottam fragment where this happened. Date: 23 February 2011, 12:34:26. Source: Own work. Author: P Jeganathan. Camera location10° 20′ 37.39″ N, 76° 58′ 09.76″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 10.343720; 76.969378.