SPIDER MONKEY R & R (Rehabilitation and Release)
  • HOME
  • THE MONKEY DIARIES
  • OUR CENTER
  • Spider Monkey Sanctuaries
  • The Monkey Videos
  • Spider Monkey Trivia
  • CHIQUITO
  • LOLITA
  • New Page

A Meeting Room for the Monkeys

7/8/2012

1 Comment

 
Picture
Uriel and Emer at work.
Picture
Ten hours of togetherness.
Picture
The new digs.
      I decided Chiquito's cage needed a meeting room where Lolita, or a newcomer, could spend a few hours or even a few days.  A minimal "barrier" where both parties could be within sight, sound, smell and even reach of each other...in a bite-free zone.
     The construction logistics were challenging.  Uriel and Emer had already worked 55 hour weeks at their regular jobs when they showed up at 7:00 AM on Sunday to start a project that had to be finished by sundown...or not until the following Sunday.  Paul, subsequently known as St. Paul, entertained Chiquito for ten straight hours with just a brief lunch break.  And I obsessed and compulsed (it's a new verb and I take full credit) about where to put the door, whether it should open in or out, etc.
     Long story short, the cage was constructed and painted by 5:00 PM.  The door opens out.  Chiquito had a blissful day hanging out with "dad" at the river; in the upper lot; and finally, on the front patio.  And although he was a bit squeaky for a day or two about having things rearranged, he now actually has more surface area.  (A dog trainer once told me never to build a square cage...that an animal will sit in the middle of a square, but will exercise in a rectangle.  Chiquito now has several rectangular areas within a large square, as well as the flat top of the new interior cage to climb on.)
     And last but not least, appreciation to the following donors for the money to build the monkey meeting room!  Allan Miller (Hollywood, USA); Scott Oliver, founder of welovecostarica.com (San Jose, CR); Axel and Francina via welovecostaria.com (Vancouver, Canada); and James Peacock via welovecostarica.com (San Jose, CR).  
     
    
1 Comment
patio door locks link
7/25/2012 11:03:13 pm

Chiquito my love it very much

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Picture
    In the jungle with the monkeys.

    Michele Gawenka 

       Jane Goodall has always been my hero, and working with primates an aspiration.  Africa wasn't in the cards the summer I turned 16, when my parents offered to send me to volunteer,  and there was only one class (in physical anthro-pology) when I wanted to study primatology in college.  
         Decades later my husband and I retired in Costa Rica, and this is our journey with spider (and howler) monkeys. 

    Archives

    April 2015
    December 2014
    August 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    October 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012
    June 2012
    May 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012
    February 2012
    January 2012

    RSS Feed