June 20, 2005

That is One Pissed Off Monkey

So the next time you want to make a monkey mad-you know, hopping screaming biting psychotically furious, here's a good way to go about it:
Eddie warned me not to take stuff near the monkey. We were having lunchon the way to Amboseli Game Park where we were to drive through, spend the night, before heading up to Loitokitok, adn the place has some animals in cages and chained to trees and whatnot. So there was Suzy the monkey and apparently she likes to steal things and break them. She was harnessed and chained to a tree and we were told she likes to shake hands. Over we went, myself,m Aubree and Peninah to take pictures of ourselves shaking hands with the monkey. Its a curious proces since first they insist on examing your hands for any lice, fleas or other delicious treats that they can pick off an eat (we passed the examination much to Suzy's dismay.) So here was Suzy surrounded by curiuous people and Pehninah was trying to get her to shake hands and the monkey just kept acting more and more twitchy and strange. I was trying to photograph the event since Pehninah is afraid of most animals and Suzy was final.y about to cooperate when she lunged for my camera and got it triumphantly. Bitch. She started turning it over and over in her hands, looking at us in a most mocking way when her handler grabbed her, held her in an airborn hog tie and managed to get the camera before it was smashed to pieces by a monkey toss. Suzy was not the least bit pleased that her prize had been taken away and provided a grand demonstratrion of waht it means to go "apeshit". She started screaming and howling and flailing herself about trying to bite the handler. She calmed herself after a while but decided that we were no friends of hers and would periodly snap and hiss at us until we left.

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