I’m pretty busy at the moment, so here’s a quick bullet-point list of what I’ve been up to here:

  • Hiking up some cliffs, which is great exercise, and not quite as scary as I thought it would be. 

  • Working on learning to identify 24 different tree species the samango monkeys feed on, so that I can pinpoint what they’re eating when I follow them.

  • Getting trained in safety, GPS and other technology use, and methodology.

  • Hanging out with baboons. They are really habituated, and you can get within a couple feet of many of them, and they don’t even react. I took a ton of pictures, but unfortunately they take forever to upload. So I’ll save that task for some point in the future. 

  • Trying to convince the ant community currently residing in my room that they would be better off elsewhere (and by “convince” I mean I’m dousing my entire room in baking soda, because apparently they hate that. It seems to actually be working). It’s too bad I don’t have much of an interest in studying ants, because I could easily observe them from the comfort of my bed.

    So, that pretty much sums it up. Oh, and one final anecdote: yesterday, a samango monkey snuck into someone’s bedroom, and ran off with a bottle of peanuts. He looked pretty pleased with himself.