Unusual sight at the dinner table at CICRA last night: Sarah, another researcher at the station, sitting calmly as a baby monkey sits perched atop her head, clutching her hair and peeing down the side of her face. As it turns out, CICRA is probably one of the few places where someone walking around with a baby monkey on their head doesn’t really cause that much shock. A couple of nights ago, one of the researchers here carried a tiny injured owl monkey into our lab. He appeared to be about one to two weeks old, with a broken tail and leg injuries, as well as a large portion of his skin torn off. He had been found on the ground near camp. Mini set to work giving him antibiotics, cleaning his wounds and splinting his
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