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Warm and fuzzy...

5/18/2012

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      Lolita epitomizes cute and cuddly, and there are times when Paul and I have to make an effort to let her venture away from us and explore...when we'd rather be squeezing or snuggling her.  Apparently adult spider monkeys find their babies as appealing as we do.   
     "In a recent study of wild A. geoffroyi, there was a dramatic change in the rate at which females received embraces when they had young infants than at other times, and females without infants appeared to give embraces in order to gain access to infants (Slater et al, 2007)."  Spider Monkeys; Behavior, Ecology and Evolution of the Genus Ateles, ed Christina J. Campbell, 2008.  
     The findings don't surprise me.  But it does make me wonder why humans go to such great lengths to remove body hair.  Don't we want to be warm and fuzzy?  I think it's a great look myself :-] 
(Victor Rodriguez graphics.)
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Me "impersonating" Lolita.
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Lolita's "Spock monkey" look.
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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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