We took Chiquito and Lolita to an unfamiliar spot today. Fortunately, we live on the edge of hundreds of hectares of jungle where the monkeys will eventually be released, so it's just a matter of us finding human access. And because we'd had several requests for videos instead of still shots, Paul manned the camcorder.
I feel like the past four months have allowed me to know Chiquito as much as you can know a wild animal of a species other than your own. He's a sexually immature male, I'm his surrogate mother, and Lolita is his kid sister. More or less. So I asked Paul to keep filming regardless of what happened, and trusted that the monkeys would work things out. (That doesn't mean I'm comfortable when my head is the only thing between them...I wince noticeably in one of the videos.)
Paul also got great footage, that I'll post to YouTube this week, of Chiquito swinging in the trees.
I feel like the past four months have allowed me to know Chiquito as much as you can know a wild animal of a species other than your own. He's a sexually immature male, I'm his surrogate mother, and Lolita is his kid sister. More or less. So I asked Paul to keep filming regardless of what happened, and trusted that the monkeys would work things out. (That doesn't mean I'm comfortable when my head is the only thing between them...I wince noticeably in one of the videos.)
Paul also got great footage, that I'll post to YouTube this week, of Chiquito swinging in the trees.
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