We have a full house now, with a real troop if introductions go well in the next few weeks, and we plan to add a series of exercise corridors as soon as weather permits.
Two is not a troop, and after two-and-a-half years with just our duo, Chiquito and Lolita, I was getting discouraged. IF the reason we weren't getting spider monkeys was because none were being orphaned it would have been great, but the reality is that there just aren't many left in the wild. The population of spider monkeys in Costa Rica decreased 72% between 1995 and 2007 (Ronald Sanchez, UCR) and now, seven years later, they have been "upgraded" to Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List, which means they face an extremely high risk of extinction. We have a full house now, with a real troop if introductions go well in the next few weeks, and we plan to add a series of exercise corridors as soon as weather permits.
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Michele
8/22/2014 08:15:09 am
YES, thank you Jennifer!
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Emmie
8/22/2014 11:29:34 am
I am praying you have good luck. This could be really exciting... I could just kiss Dirt a until my lips ran oyt, so sweet!
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Michele
8/22/2014 12:05:01 pm
Thanks, Emmie :-]
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8/23/2014 03:47:28 am
WOW, great news for these new babies to have found YOU!!!
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Michele
8/23/2014 04:05:18 am
Thanks, George!
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Debbie Rudd
8/23/2014 08:42:15 am
Wow-when it rains, it pours monkeys!
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Michele
8/23/2014 09:23:46 am
We feel so very lucky, Debbie!
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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. Archives
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