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I spent monsoon season in Bangladesh studying gibbons one year because all the cool animals are most active then. As it sounds, its very wet and humid and hot. It would regularly be 95-100 degrees F in the shade with high humidity and then it would rain and cool down to 85-90 degrees F for a while. You could see the storms coming and everyone would scramble in from the rice paddies or tea plantations or fishing boats in the haor until it blew over and then go back to work. Everything I carried had to be wrapped in plastic and we used waterproof paper as much as possible but we still often had to drop everything and pull on all of our rain gear at least once a day and everything got completely coated in mud. Out in the jungle the mud was the real issue, as well as the terrestrial leaches who really enjoy the wet season and would be constantly stalking you. In the cities the problem was flooding. Most of Bangladesh is a floodplain so when the monsoons hit the capital city and all the other main cities are pretty much under water. People drown in uncovered manholes and things all the time, especially since most of the population doesn't know how to swim. I flew home the day after a major flood and the streets of the capital had so many bloated dead cow (and other) corpses I can't find my other pictures of a storm blowing in but this was taken in the middle of the day before it started pouring. Some storms were more impressive than others but they happened nearly every day of the 3 months I was there.
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MOVIE MAJICK posted:Elaborate please They can move around on land like giant inchworms, occasionally stopping to wave their headparts around to look for you. They're super gross and their bites itch worse than mosquito bites and leave you bleeding after you pick them off. The tiger leeches also can end up on wet leaves and hop off onto your neck as you walk by. God help you if you aren't paying attention while taking a poo poo out in the jungle because it will look like you forgot a tampon on a heavy flow day. If you remembered to tuck your pants into your socks and DEET every inch of uncovered skin it was ok though. You got used to it at least.
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