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Climbing on the Deck Plants

5/20/2013

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PictureVenecia on a potted "tiger paw" plant on the deck.
     I used to cringe when our spider monkey, Lolita, climbed on the deck plants because they didn't hold her weight.  But even though Venecia is gaining consistently, and has gone from 694 grams to 736 grams in the 11 days we've had her, she's tiny compared to Lolita at the same age.  The deck plants make a great playground!
      Venecia likes to hitch rides on us during the day, and we make it a point to walk around outside with her in the morning...howlers needs sunlight to digest their food.  But she's been sleeping through the night since she arrived, and so far has been a very easy keeper.

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    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. 

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