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Some Men Have Hunting Trophies...

10/17/2012

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     Some men have hunting trophies...and some men release animals that other men have captured.
     Here Paul and Chiquito head for their favorite jungle hangout (pun intended).  Paul keeps Chiquito on a leash until they're off the county road - where they rarely see a vehicle - and snaps it back on him before they head home.  Chiquito spends an hour or more in the trees, but I suspect he's disappointed that Paul can't join him and I'm hopeful that Lolita will be confident enough to venture off me soon when we're in an unfamiliar place.  In the meantime Chiquito and Lolita spend their days in adjoining cages with a great deal of contact through the chain link, and I haven't had to worry that "somebody is going to ended up crying" (as my mother used to admonish us when things got too rough).

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One-handed hang.
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Two-handed tail hang.
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Holding Paul's hand and walking.
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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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