Raffles’ banded langurs are shy, elusive creatures that are rarely seen — except by eagle-eyed nature-lovers scouring the treetops with binoculars. So it came as quite a surprise to 13-year-old Julianne Teo to spot one from the window of her home in Yio Chu Kang, in the north-east of Singapore, early on Friday morning.

The distraught langur stuck in the monsoon drain. Photo: ACRES