Crab-eating macaques also have the habit of inserting their hands in small burrows or holes to find crabs or other animals. In the mangrove swamp they have learned to feed on crabs, crustaceans, shellfish and other small animals exposed by the low tide.

My first impressions of the gentle, dignified, and yet genial old man were entirely favourable: and the real satisfaction that showed itself on his daughter’s face, as she met me with the words “this is indeed an unlooked-for pleasure!”