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Venecia Loves Guaba Fruit

5/30/2013

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Venecia snacking on guaba fruit.
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Guaba fruit hanging in the tree.
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Fuzzy white pulp surrounds seeds.
     Venecia was weaned when she was rescued, or at least refuses goat milk and soy formula.  She has a hearty appetite, though, and has gained weight steadily.  Her eyes are bright and her coat is thick and glossy.  Fortunately, all of her scabs have healed without intervention. 
     Howler monkeys are foliovores, or leaf eaters.  Classified as hind gut fermenters, they have digestion similar to the horse.  But they have proved to be very adaptable in the aftermath of hurricanes, and also eat fruit and flowers and insects.
     Venecia has yet to refuse any fruit she's been offered (apples, papaya, banana, and canteloupe), and here she relishes the fuzzy white flesh around the seeds of the guaba.  This fruit will be plentiful when she's released.
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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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