A few days ago, Juliet noticed a lizard crawling up a wall. I had her out on the front porch. I often sit at night with her and Jessie and the kids. She enjoys the attention and usually makes quite the monkey out of herself. Her favorite thing is to throw things at Jessie and the kids.
To my surprise, she is afraid of the lizard. Philippine monkeys normally eat lizards. maybe her mother didn’t get to that lesson. She swatted it with her tail and it fell to the ground. She followed it down and then quietly and tentatively began to look for it on a ledge.
George wouldn’t have been curious, he would have ate it alive! There have been several differences we’ve noticed about Juliet. George wouldn’t eat yellow bananas. Juliet wont eat the green ones. She might try to eat part of it. George would do just the opposite. He would eat part of the yellow ones, maybe. Sometimes he’d just sniff it and then drop it.
George was a more tame than Juliet and would throw temper tantrums when we’d go out for our walk if we didn’t take him too.He would give a shrill voice that we could hear from a block away. Juliet has never made that sound. Jessie says George was just a baby. I don’t know if it is that or if the males make that noise while the females do not. I don’t know.
She and I continue to learn about each other. She is a lot of fun and we’ve made her life better. She looks so much stronger than she did a month ago. She now swings around and jumps from place to place and climbs with ease where before she seemed just too weak.
Her upper body is much more filled out but her lower have still seems thin to me. We try to keep her fed as well as we can. She certainly is not as hungry as she use to be as she’s much more likely to play with her food than she use to be.
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What a difference you both have made in her life already! It makes me sad to think of her outside by herself before she came to live with you. I wonder if she has any memory of it? It takes a lot of patience to care for a wild animal, and I give you both credit for taking the time. It was fortunate that Christine was kindly able to spot a need and connect Juliet up with you. I hope that your family enjoys Juliet and that she can continute to heal and grow.
We are lucky to have her. Even Jessie loves that we have her despite their territorial fueds.
She contines to get better. her back legs though, if I keep her color on her she starts to limp. My biggest fear is that she will escape.. If I thought she could survive, I’d release her as much as I don’t want to do that, that’s where she belongs. She’s a lot of fun.
I think Juliet is jealous of Jessie, that is why there is a feud between the two of them. Juliet might be thinking…if we can only read her mind…that Jessie is another female who will be her competition with Rusty’s attention.:)
Yeah, i think you summed it up Terry.
And I thought you called my monkey ‘damn’ somewhere because she woke you? That’s it, I’m taking Juliet back, and you can support her for $100/month till she goes to Uni. Hang on, I think monkeys don’t go to Uni?
Just kidding. Glad so see she’s put on weight Rusty. Keep up the good work. Have you left yet? or you’re reading this in Thaland?
I don’t remember that. If you think you can take her out of her cage, go for it.
Not in Thailand, was in Cebu City. I never say when I’m away. Not a lot of crime in bogo but there is some.. Living in this big house people might think I’m rich. cough cough….its just better if I don’t say when I’m gone.
When in Thailand, I don’t know if I’ll have access to computers. I hope so.
That’s part of it Terry but it has more to do with the hierarchy of “the troop” than it is a male female thing. She is also jealous of Jessie. If Jessie hugs her son, Juliet goes ape and Jessie does it to watch Juliet go ape.
Now, if her son goes out there when we are not here, Jason (her son) and Juliet are friends.
It is all about being the boss. In the Monkey world, females are either born on top or the bottom but they are required to smack down any upstarts that get uppity.
Males on the other hand are not born into their rank, they have to fight and usually fight there way into other troops.
She and Jessie are fighting for position in our troop. its a huge part of most species of monkey way of life.
That is very interesting!. I must admit I knew very little about monkeys.
I’ve read Bob’s report on Juliet – very funny
The part I don’t know is if what I know applies to this species. In some species the females fight for their right too and mate with only one male. most though mate with many so the males don’t know that the babies may belong to someone else.
Clearly though she has a hierarchy that’s she’s trying to establish.
Quennie, I too wonder what she remembers. I don’t know. I’m sure it influences her now though