I was confused about the exposure setting for this picture. The pathway at Nelapattu is shaded with bushes on both sides. Luckily, light was streaking on this monkey from a gap at the top.

I increased the exposure bias by .3 steps hoping the background bushes would not be full of shadows. Looking at the image, I think a 0 exposure bias might have been good.

Bibhav: after your suggestion, I did try with reducing the brightness, but that reduced details further and the result did not seem faithful to my recollection of our monkey friend!