Stump Tail Macaques climb trees on Tanaxpillo Island in Lake Catemaco, Veracruz, Mexico. The monkeys, originally from India by way of Puerto Rico; were part of a research project and now survive on wild cactus and hand outs from tourists. The tropical freshwater lake at the center of the Sierra de Los Tuxtlas, is a popular tourist destination and known for free ranging monkeys, the rainforest backdrop and Mexican witches known as Brujos.

---

Size: 5150px × 3434px
Location: Lake Catemaco, Tanaxpillo, Veracruz, Mexico.
Photo credit: © Richard Ellis / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: -human, -native, animal, arctoides, bear, catemaco, day, de, destination, endangered, ethnoprimatology, exotic, fresh, horizontal, inbreed, island, jungle, laguna, lake, lonely, los, macaca, macaque, macaques, mammal, mexican, mexico, monkey, outdoors, people, polymictic, primate, primates, rainforest, sad, sierra, sightseeing, solo, species, stump, tail, tanaxpillo, tourism, tourists, travel, trees, tropical, tropics, tuxlas, veracruz, water