Walk down the Road | From the Forest | Nullah/Hercules Troop | Sweet Little Girl | Part 1

Thanks for all your welcoming words! I hope that you will watch and enjoy my snippets of the macaque troops that include Golden Hill Road as part of their home ranges.

In the next few videos, walk with me up and down the road, see what I see as it unfolds. The perspective will be a bit different as the footage was taken with an action camera. No zoom. Very little wind noise. Also, no slow motion - well just a little bit. As its early afternoon, the monkeys are just starting to emerge from the forest for their afternoon rest, groom, bit of foraging, and socializing. Play time as well for the yearlings and juveniles. Later in the afternoon, excitement starts to build in anticipation of goodies to come. For now - its quiet. It's hard to imagine while in the beautiful, forested slopes of Kam Shan Country Park, that within walking distance is the very high density urban area of Hong Kong. The monkeys have adapted to human presence, the semi-provisioning of food, and encroachment into their home. They are surviving and thriving. Unlike their shy and elusive cousins, the Southern pig-tailed macaques that avoid humans and are highly sensitive to anthropogenic/human activities in their natural habitat.

Please ignore the date stamps - they are not correct!

You may have noticed that I am partial to slow motion. This relates to my background using slow motion frame by frame video analysis of movement. Slow motion helps capture subtleties in movement, as well as behaviour, that may not be noticed all at once in real time. This interests me, and perhaps viewers may find this interesting as well. Plus I find it relaxing to watch the monkeys walk in slow motion!