Monkeys and Peacocks and Cows, oh my!

Did I mention that I had a visitor last week? That is why my driver had to come at 5 a.m. yesterday; to drive her to the airport. It was a girl from our Toronto office here to help me with the software release (because that is definitely not my area of expertise). We tried to fit in some sightseeing here and there between the testing and actually did see quite a bit for the little amount of time we had...especially since it was super hot until Sunday.
She was super determined to see a monkey while she was here and lately, as I recently mentioned, I've seen tons of monkey, but they seemed to have gone into hiding during her visit. Finally on Sunday morning in Old Delhi she saw two hanging out on the street (usually I see at least 10 in Old Delhi so it was surprising to see only two).
However, we did see a ton of peacocks while she was here. I've seen peacocks once before in Delhi and had once again begun to think I'd only imagined them because I'd never seen them again. So on Friday (Gandhi's birthday, office was closed but we did only minimal sightseeing because of the heat) I took her to deer park. The deer park is in a larger area with some monuments and when I take people there I don't tell them that there are hundreds of deer in the middle of Delhi but say there is a 'surprise'; so we were walking up to the fence of the deer park and I'm expecting to - as usual - see a bunch of deer. Instead no deer but there were 6 peacocks! It was amazing. Of course I didn't have my camera because I was thinking that I'd been there tons of times before so why carry a heavy camera around on a super hot day. We did eventually see some deer, only a few, but plenty of peacocks, it was very cool.
Then at the Red Fort, also in Old Delhi, we saw another one! Craziness.
And, even though there aren't that many cows in Delhi I do think that they know when tourists are around because we had one walk directly towards us in traffic - which rarely happens; and another walked directly between us while we were walking through a market...we had to step out of her way, it was quite funny.
I feel like I talk about animals too much, but really, how often do you see monkeys and peacocks and cows (and goats, etc., etc.) just hanging out.
Definitely one of my favorite things about India.
Aside: heat is making a mini comeback after 3 cool days but I think (hope) that my nights with the AC on are over. Very exciting!