Thus Endeth Chiquito's Days of Nursing

     Chiquito has mellow mornings and feisty mornings.  This morning he was feisty, and managed to twist the bottle so it fit into the chain link like a puzzle piece…which he then yanked  into the cage. 
     I didn’t have my camera to capture his impersonation of a drunken sailor, but suffice it to say Chiquito had his own party.  And his last bottle. 

Chiquito with his last bottle.

But not too big to cuddle.

     The past couple of weeks Chiquito had started masturbating while he was sucking on the bottle, and this behavior happened to coincide with the controversial Time Magazine cover of a three-year old nursing. I knew it was time. 
     Chiquito’s a big boy now.  Still dependent on us, but not a baby any more...which supports the data establishing spider monkey infancy and nursing as being from birth until around the age of two. 
     He still likes to cuddle though.