tick? or scab?

lately i have been playing the game called tick or scab? it usually ends up being a tick though, so its amusement has faded a little bit. **edit.. so mike, another capuchin field assistant from another team, found a tick UNDERNEATH a scab. apparently the tick was on there so long that it scabbed over. things just got interesting again.

i have been assigned my troop-- los valles, the food group. their name is intuitive because their range is a massive area overridden with hills. lately, lv and i have been playing a tiring game of hide and seek. jeffrey (a fellow field assistant) told me that i should have shouted ollyollyoxenfree on day two. i'm too stubborn to let the monkeys haze me like that. but today, on this epic day, amanda found the monkeys on the main road. when i heard the news i put my field clothes on in an exuberant rush to meet them. nutella was so awesome today-- even though it was pouring down rain he came down to the ground to say hello and eat some soil. which is a very rare behavior! also.. i am pretty sure that blanquita is pregnant..


so start thinking of food names (preferably spices, condiments, or sauces says the pretentious doctorate person who habituated the group) for the infant. my favorites so far are beef cake, garbanzo, noodle, aunt jemima, and heinz.

here are two monkeys from los valles that i have taken a liking to-- nutella and weirdo. nutella has a snaggle tooth that makes him look like a half vampire.


and weirdo has this funny spaced-out face on all the time. he kind of reminds me of that slightly dumb jock basketball player.


mostaza (i like to call him mustard or frankenmonkey)is a model, apparently.


here are some FUNgus pictures that i took when i was finding and not finding monkeys.








some gooey pod insect covering thing.


some stinkbug egg stuff.