Ah I've missed your writings. You got me all excited about shit. I've always wondered whether monkeys have a particular smell, I sometimes get a strong whiff of something that is similar to weed, and the dogs always seem to get super excited about it.
Well if it's similar to weed, I'd suspect a small carnivore. What do you have where you are? Just palm civets? I forget. I live in an English village and walking through London streets now I'm always going 'fox? no weed.' But then I have a weird sense of smell. And often it is fox.
We have civets and monkeys. For years we've been hearing the monkeys but had mistaken them for bird calls. The dogs go mad for them and run off down the river for hours. I imagine they're down there with the monkeys taunting them and throwing their fruit waste at them from high up in the trees. Late last year one of the dogs had a very guilty look on his face and I found an unconscious baby monkey a few metres from the house. I thought it was dead at first but it only had a little saliva on its fur. As it came to, it started looking around and realised she was no longer clinging to her Mama's back but lying on the ground. I called my wife over and all of a sudden the monkey jumped up and clung to her leg. Monica's reaction was to scream and shake it off and it jumped up the closest tree. Eventually it made its way back to the cliff and the next morning it was gone, hopefully reunited with its tribe. It was pretty cool. It would have been horrible had it been injured.
I lived in Brighton for a few years. A fox and I were walking towards each other on the same side of the pavement in the very early morning. As we got closer, without any sort of hesitation or fear it crossed the road to the other side, kept walking until we had passed each other and then returned to my side of the road. They're just so at home in the city.
Such good writing. And suffered for!
Very glad you liked it!
Ah I've missed your writings. You got me all excited about shit. I've always wondered whether monkeys have a particular smell, I sometimes get a strong whiff of something that is similar to weed, and the dogs always seem to get super excited about it.
Hope you're doing well!
Well if it's similar to weed, I'd suspect a small carnivore. What do you have where you are? Just palm civets? I forget. I live in an English village and walking through London streets now I'm always going 'fox? no weed.' But then I have a weird sense of smell. And often it is fox.
Hope you're well yourself?
We have civets and monkeys. For years we've been hearing the monkeys but had mistaken them for bird calls. The dogs go mad for them and run off down the river for hours. I imagine they're down there with the monkeys taunting them and throwing their fruit waste at them from high up in the trees. Late last year one of the dogs had a very guilty look on his face and I found an unconscious baby monkey a few metres from the house. I thought it was dead at first but it only had a little saliva on its fur. As it came to, it started looking around and realised she was no longer clinging to her Mama's back but lying on the ground. I called my wife over and all of a sudden the monkey jumped up and clung to her leg. Monica's reaction was to scream and shake it off and it jumped up the closest tree. Eventually it made its way back to the cliff and the next morning it was gone, hopefully reunited with its tribe. It was pretty cool. It would have been horrible had it been injured.
I lived in Brighton for a few years. A fox and I were walking towards each other on the same side of the pavement in the very early morning. As we got closer, without any sort of hesitation or fear it crossed the road to the other side, kept walking until we had passed each other and then returned to my side of the road. They're just so at home in the city.
Poor little mite. The monkey, not the fox. Hope he was OK.