Call of the jungle. . .

The other day, we had a couple check in and they were hoping to see some monkeys. As luck would have it, about 5 minutes after they arrived, there was a family of them up in the trees between our house and the rancho.

I walked the couple up so they could get a better view in the waning daylight, and they got to see some adults and two babies jumping around from tree to tree.

The howler monkeys are pretty loud and their sound belies their size. The woman was amazed at the noise the little critters could make. I told her to howl back at them and she looked at me like I was crazy.

After some prodding from her husband, she gave it a try and the monkeys did answer her back.

You would have thought she had just found her first Egg or spotted Santa Claus as she jumped up and down and clapped her hand