Eye to eye encounter with Vervet monkey

Male Vervet monkey (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) with broken tail, walking along the fairway of a golf course and looking intensely at photographer who is observing from a lower vantage point some 15 meters away. Studies have shown that in male Vervet monkeys injuries from fighting can be the result of intergroup fights as much as of punishment from their own group members in an attempt to de-escalate or prevent them from instigating a fight. Captured at the Kiligolf estate, near Usa river, Tanzania.