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What better to do on a warm winter sunny day than sit and groom one and another out in the sun? The reward for the groomer is the occasional bite of a flea or lice, and cleaner fur and a nice rub is the reward for the groomed. A macaque grooms another at the annual Cattle Fair of Sonepur in Bihar, India. Does the smaller one have scabies? We wonder why it's fur seems to be uprooted near the tail... Monkey dynamics at work! The Sonepur Cattle Fair or Malegaon Mela is held on Kartik Poornima (the full moon day) in the month of November in Sonepur, Bihar, on the confluence of river Ganges and Gandak. It is also known as Harihar Kshetra Mela and it attracts visitors from all over Asia. Till date, it is the biggest cattle fair of Asia and stretches on from fifteen days to one month. It has its