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Monkeys at Watering Hole, India, 1997

Photograph by Michael Nichols

A troop of Hanuman langur monkeys drinks from a watering hole used by tigers in India's Bandhavgarh National Park. Named after the Hindu monkey god Hanuman, these lanky, long-tailed monkeys are found in the humid forests, swamps, and even urban areas of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar (Burma).

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Making Room for Wild Tigers," December 1997, National Geographic magazine)