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Chiquito Still Loves His Blanket

4/12/2014

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PictureSitting on a tree limb wrapped in his blanket.
    Chiquito has always loved having a security blanket.  The first few weeks after he arrived he wrapped himself in his blanket and looked sad, as he did the one heart-wrenching time he was sick. 
      He's a macho four year-old guy now, with large huevos and equally impressive fangs. But he still loves his "binkie."
      
     I found the perfect monkey blanket at Value Village on my last trip to the States - it's plush and has an appliqued monkey on it - and Chiquito has been duly appreciative.  He still steals Lolita's blanket (which she never uses), but if he's wrapped up, it's always in HIS blanket.  
     Here Lolita teases Chiquito, pulling his blanket through the common chainlink wall.

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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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