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MODESTY?  It's uniquely human...

1/5/2013

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Chiquito in a wanton position with Paul.
     Chiquito could be the poster  boy for immodesty.  This morning I photographed him through the kitchen window...sunning his butt.  He was bent over in the only sunny corner of the cage, mooning the heat.
     Non-human primates aren't modest.  Body functions and anatomical parts  are just that.    (While human males are less modest than females, even they wear a loin-covering of some type in tropical, stone age cultures.)
    But not only is Chiquito immodest - he's carnal.  Younger men are offered a monkey butt to groom.  Older men are humped.  And my armpits are sniffed  and/or licked whenever the opportunity arises... which is frequently, because I wear sleeveless tops.  (I wore shorts just once.)
    Chiquito came to us at 22 months of age and his "eggs," as the Ticos call them, were noticeably smaller than they are now at almost three.  But he won't attain sexual maturity for two or more years, at the age of five.  Yikes?

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Chiquito moons a young worker...asking for a butt rub.
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Chiquito smells his fingers... after rubbing them under my arm.
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Chiquito humps the leg of an older man...because it feels good.
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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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