Chiquito on the floor by the door wrapped in his security blanket.
Chiquito acts depressed when he's left alone in the cage, and wraps himself in what David Peiro calls his "security blanket." Spider monkeys aren't solitary animals, and in the wild he would live in a "fission-fusion" society of multiple monkeys.
I can't do this to Chiquito. If he doesn't cheer up we'll have to relocate him to another facility where he has company, because it will probably be at least six months before Lolita is big enough to be left alone with him. Since he's never been around a small infant spider monkey his behavior may not be appropriate, and they haven't been together except for a quick photo the first day.
All of which is depressing me, too.
I can't do this to Chiquito. If he doesn't cheer up we'll have to relocate him to another facility where he has company, because it will probably be at least six months before Lolita is big enough to be left alone with him. Since he's never been around a small infant spider monkey his behavior may not be appropriate, and they haven't been together except for a quick photo the first day.
All of which is depressing me, too.
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