My ongoing surprise at the appearance of monkeys
While we were standing in the courtyard of the City Palace in Jaipur (just a few steps from the giant silver urns), an entire troop of monkeys started to climb out of windows in the upper wall and file around the perimeter.
I still haven’t gotten over the novelty of an entire continent’s worth of new indigenous animals. It always seems particularly strange to see monkeys outside of the context of a zoo.
I wish I could see a pangolin somewhere, but I think the chances of that are pretty slim. (Though an article in the newspaper a few months ago claimed they live in Bangalore! That seems near-impossible to me.)