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Tent Monkey

4/5/2012

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     Lolita's preferred sleeping spot is my armpit, and I often let her snuggle in bed for an hour at night before transferring her to her cage.  She makes contented little chuckling noises under her breath until she falls asleep, and doesn't move unless I do.  In the wild, she'd sleep with her mother for several years.
     In her playpen (which was manufactured as a rabbit cage), Lolita either sleeps clinging to a large stuffed monkey toy on the bottom of the cage, or swaddles herself in a makeshift tent of her own creation.  I always wrap a fleece blanket around the plastic shelf to make it softer, and Lolita discovered she could squeeze between the bottom of the shelf and the blanket to create a little tent.
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Jennifer link
4/5/2012 06:32:45 pm

So sweet! Do you allow visitors? I haven't seen anything on the site about it.

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Michele Gawenka
4/6/2012 12:39:27 am

Hi Jennifer, Unfortunately Chiquito doesn't like strangers to look at him. He gets very agitated and then hides in his crate and pulls a blanket over his head. He also doesn't care for women, although he loves the mature men he met when we first got him (spider monkeys have a philopatric society). All of which is just as well, since the less he's habituated to humans the better his chances of a successful release. We're thinking about putting one-way glass on one of the kitchen windows though, so visitors can watch him without upsetting him. Lolita doesn't mind visitors, but she too won't interact with strangers. So we're not a very exciting troop, but you're welcome to come see us :-] Give me a call at 8632 4787.

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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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