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Morning with a Monkey

6/15/2013

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PictureMarisol climbs into my sports bra for a secure ride.
     Baby monkeys cling to fur; it's a matter of life and death as their mother travels through the trees.  But Paul and I are very slippery as surrogate parents go, so we have to improvise.  (Marisol would be happy in our hair but she likes to chew on it, and there's the risk of us becoming poopheads.)
    Mornings are hectic (feeding, cleaning cages, doing monkey laundry).  And some things - pulling up your pants, putting toothpaste on your brush, hanging towels on the line - are particularly difficult one-handed.
     Hopefully Marisol will be ready to venture off us soon and spend time playing with Venecia.

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Paul showers with Marisol.
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Paul shaves with Marisol.
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I do my hair with Marisol.
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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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