Shubho Bijoya from a troop of monkeys @ our terrace

BaNdor r baNdrami
Today morning a troop of monkeys came and greeted us "Shubho Bijoya" :-). There were six or seven of them - jumping, dancing, thinking, eating, playing, chasing each other -- so funny. They were sitting first on our neighbor's terrace, then they came to our terrace and jumped on to our mango tree.

I never looked up the name of these species before. Now browsing pictures on the Internet, I think they are black-footed gray langur. They are also known as Northern plains gray langur (Semnopithecus entellus) or Hanuman langur which are the species of primate in the Cercopithecidae family.

                                                            

So these gray lengurs are our distant cousin (Thanks to Pokai for pointing it out).

Here are the photos: Flickr Album