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A Sensuous Morning

9/14/2012

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     It was a sensuous morning for Chiquito.  Chiquito's testicles (or "eggs" as the Ticos call them) have grown noticeably in the eight months we've had him, and with them his libido.
     Breakfast is a usually a big deal, but today Chiquito was more interested in humping Paul's leg.  (Paul...always a good sport... doesn't discourage this natural adolescent behavior, although he does try to distract Chiquito.)    A short time later I watered the climbing vines I recently planted around the cage, and Chiquito had his way with my armpit.  When I'm holding him he puts his face under my arm, sniffs, and gently licks.  But since he couldn't reach with his nose and mouth, he improvised.  
     Touching someone's armpit and smelling your fingers is considered rude by human standards, but we try to go with the flow.  So when Paul said, "Hey, maybe I'm missing something?" I laughed and obliged him.  Exactly what fascinates Chiquito is still a mystery.
    
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3/10/2021 08:33:40 pm

Very tthoughtful blog

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    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. 

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