Baby Langur monkeys use mother's tail as a swing! Cutest sight ever, in Rajasthan

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In the warm glow of a winter sunset in Rajasthan, we filmed this delightful pack of langurs, and discovered that they not only have a sense of humour and a sense of fun, but also plan fun things for their kids and communicate in a fairly complex fashion. When one langur monkey kid obviously enjoys the act of swinging from it's mother's tail, other babies join in. Soon the mother's tail is a swinging rope ladder -basically it becomes the local park swing for the kiddies! When the youngest baby in the pack moves towards the matriarch mother's tail, she barely gets a grip on it when the big female moves up the rock, dropping the baby rather unceremoniously. The actual mother of the baby that has been dropped jumps in front to console the distraught baby and ensure her an early ride! The matri