Wildlife gardening usually means people planting flowers and trees to attract wild animals such as butterflies and birds. In India, sometimes it is the wildlife that is doing the gardening! This troop of Hanuman Langurs, also known as the Northern Plains Grey Langur Semnopithecus entellus, is helping out in a front garden on a busy road in Patan, Gujarat. Langurs are folivores so the adults are eating leaves - effectively pruning and thinning the bushes - while their infants play on the lawn or jump on and off the swing, pausing only to squeal at me taking their video - is there no privacy?
Usually I write about primates and elephants being #GardenersoftheForest, but in this instance they are gardeners of the, well, garden, and their antics form the 67th #BrightenYourDay video to lift spirits in #Covid19 #lockdown.
I just hope the home-owners found their primate neighbours equally uplifting - the garden looked very well tended and I'm sure this wasn't the first visit by the langurs, so perhaps it is a good example of the kind of mutual tolerance between people and wildlife that India can teach the world?