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Getting Acquainted

8/20/2014

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PicturePancita (L) and Anita (R) eating grapes.
   Our two new girls are sweethearts.  
    Anita is polite and doesn't make eye contact (which is a social gaffe among monkeys) but immediately hops onto any available lap, with or without food.  
   Pancita is a bundle of energy and never sits still unless there's food!

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Pancita wearing my skirt on her head.
Pancita and Anita are next to Lolita, but the cages haven't been opened into one large enclosure yet, which will be a new experience for Lolita and for us.  To be continued...
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Red grapes are a special treat.
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Pancita spits hers out.
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Lolita reaches for a grape.
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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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