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Gorilla?  Gremlin?  Howler Monkey!

1/13/2013

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Paul holding Hershey.
      A year ago we welcomed orphaned spider monkeys Chiquito and Lolita.  Now, once again,  the monkeys gods have decided that we were getting too much sleep.
     Meet Hershey, an infant howler monkey.  Thanks to our biologist Olivier, I was offered the opportunity to drive north two hours, past San Carlos, to retrieve this newborn orphaned in a coconut plantation.  The umbilical cord was still attached.
                Age:  3 or 4 days
                Sex:  Undetermined, probably female
                Weight:  9 ounces, or 252 grams
                Species:  Mantled howler monkey 
    Female  howler monkeys have an enlarged clitoris that resembles a penis.  So with no testicles visible, or palpable under the skin, chances are that the baby is female.  But time will definitely tell...sexually mature male howlers have a white scrotum readily visible against their black fur.
     Our biggest surprise?  She was born with teeth!
    We're currently feeding her Isomil from a 1 cc. syringe to monitor her exact intake closely.  (Thank you for the video Gloria Yeatman!)
    Stay tuned...


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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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