Got Bit

Ok, its pouring down outside today but luckily both Craig and i had already planned to take a day off to organise further travel and just take it easy. A much better option than sitting under a small shelter with about 20 wet and cold monkeys all slowly getting on each others nerves because they are bored which is what took place yesterday afternoon.

The day after I wrote my last blog update about how i hadn't been bitten yet, I went and got bitten. I was holding the lead on a male spider monkey called Frodo who is fairly new to the park and still getting used to things. He can be fairly jumpy but had given me no trouble. His lead was a bit tied up around a branch so I deftly let go of his lead with one hand and grabbed at the lead closer to his neck with the other. Well my lightning quick movement scared the living carp out of Frodo and before I've known it he's gone the bite on my hand before jumping back and making scared and excited noises. I then had to calm him down before handing him to someone else and heading off to the clinic. Luckily it didn't need stitches or anything, just some betadine stuff to keep the germs out. Fortunately it was just a bite done out of fear rather than an attack which i really can't see him doing.

Later that day Frodo got attacked by 5 other monkeys. Being new I guess they were testing him out. I promise i didn't organise the attack as payback! :) Anyway, he was even more freaked out than usual so i took him for a walk and we sat in the middle of what is a kind of stable landslide in the jungle and soaked up some sun. Very relaxing actually.

I still don't have any photos to post of the monkeys but i might take the camera along tomorrow if the weather is nice. The danger is having a capuchin monkey steal it so its tricky.