A newborn macaque named Alfie squirms and cries out with his mouth wide open as his mother grips him by the arm, his pale, still-thin body stretched out over a bed of dry brown leaves. That single moment, caught on camera, is the heart of this field footage: a baby macaque finding his young mother’s handling hard to accept.
Who is Alfie?
Alfie is a newborn macaque, a type of monkey found in wild troops across parts of Asia. In this footage he still has the pale pink face and thin, sparse fur typical of a very young infant, not yet grown into the fuller coat of an older baby. His mother appears young herself, and much of the video follows the two of them on the forest floor.
What does the footage show?
Early on, Alfie is seen crawling alone across a thick carpet of dead leaves, reaching a small hand toward a fallen leaf as he tries to move on his own. He is small enough that a single dry leaf beneath him looks nearly as big as one of his limbs.
Later, he sits upright in a patch of leaves near a mossy log, looking uncertain, with another monkey’s hand visible just at the edge of the frame. Toward the end, his mother stands over him in a patch of green ground cover, her attention turned down toward him as he stays close to her feet.
The clearest and most striking moment comes when his mother grips Alfie by the arm and he reacts by crying out, mouth open, arms and legs splayed against the leaf litter, clearly unhappy with the handling.
Where was this filmed?
The footage was shot outdoors in a wooded, leaf-covered area, likely a wild park setting where the troop lives and moves freely among the trees and undergrowth. No people or buildings appear in the frames, keeping the focus entirely on Alfie and his mother.
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Baby macaque Alfie cries out while his mother grips his arm on the leaf-covered ground