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Filmed for a Television Series!!!

11/16/2012

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    The monkeys were filmed today by Expat's Paradise Productions, LLC for a prospective series on expats.  Okay, technically Paul and I were the ones being filmed...but the monkeys are a lot more interesting.  In theory, anyway. 
    First the equipment was set up to film Chiquito "helping" Paul clean the cage.

    What Usually Happens:
    1) Chiquito holds the nozzle on the hose and helps Paul spray everything down.
    2) Chiquito rides on the broom handle and helps Paul sweep.
    3) Chiquito tosses all of the fruit rinds and peels out of the empty dish Paul put them in.  At least twice.
    4) Chiquito hugs Paul's face.  He motors around on Paul's head.  He perches on Paul's hand like Buddha.

    What Actually Happened:
    1) Chiquito stared at Sid behind the huge camera, and Brian pointing a sound boom at him...and squeaked. For fifteen minutes.

    As Paul lamented afterwards, absolutely none of Chiquito's cute, feisty personality was captured on film.
    Enter Lolita.  The flying monkey.
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(Left - Right) Michele, Paul, Lolita, Brian and Sid.
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Close-up of Lolita.
     Any photographer who thinks human children make difficult subjects hasn't met a spider monkey.
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Leela offers Lolita a bottle.
     Lolita reached over her head for the sound boom.  She climbed Brian's leg to grab the curly cord.  But most of the time she was darling...and she stole the show.
     It will be five or six months before we have clips from the filming, but we can't wait!
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Lolita likes her men hairier than Sid.
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Rebecca Overall
2/1/2013 05:24:00 am

That will be fun to see the footage! I apologize for not staying up on your blog ... too much action in Costa Rica and not enough "monkey" time in my world ... things look great though! :)

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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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