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YEAR IN REVIEW Cont. from
p. 3.
unpleasant while it lasted, but it was over by Labor Day.
In
September, thirteen South American habitats were
completely destroyed, and all the primates there, primarily
GRAY PALADINS, WHITE-CHEEKED MUSCATELS and
BLUE-BLOODED TAMARINS, were given the choice of
relocating to a zoo or being bulldozed. Not surprisingly,
many of them picked captivity.
The rainy season came early this year,
and really made
attendance at the Great Apes and Lesser Primates Dinner in
October a very difficult matter. Since the distance from the
Holiday Inn Cleveland to where many primates live is very
much farther than most primates' ranges, we expected there
to be a low turnout, but we didn't see any RUBY-
THROATED MACAROONS or SCREAMING MIMIS
(which was just as well, actually), and the CROESUS
MONKEYS and the WESTERN HAIRY-EARED FAT-
TAILED DWARF BROWN WOOLY LEMURS were absent
too. We were particularly disappointed by the failure to
show up of that perenially odd trio, the LORIS, the SLOW
LORIS, and the REALLY SLOW LORIS, who were to have
received a special award, but considering when the
invitations were sent out, we should perhaps not have
expected the latter two.
The world's last pair of ELEPHANT
MARMOSETS
drowned in a Kenyan flash flood in November, and we want
to pause for a moment in our busy schedule to take time to
put away our other things and remember not to forget those
game and hardy little critters. It seems to happen every
year, but just when we were thinking that we had avoided it
in 1987, it occurred again when a nasty skirmish broke out
between two sympatric Bornean primates, Nasalis larvatus
giganticus, the LARGE-NOSED PROBOSCIS, and Macaca
nasalis porcinea, the PIG-NOSED MACAQUE, over just
whose noses are the ugliest. Come on you guys, every year
it's the same old thing. Cut it out!
In summary, the editors of Primate
Nooz can only state
once again that our situation is tenuous and getting worse,
and that in all likelihood there will not be too many more
editions of “The Year in Review” for our readers to enjoy.
So, from all of us here to all of you out there, we say
“Happy Foraging in 1988.”
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personåls
Single, male, whitefaced gibbon, loves ripe
fruit,
brachiating, and duetting at sunrise and sunset,
seeks attractive, vigorous young female for
long-term monogamous, dull-as-dishwater
relationship. Write soon, cycle ends in two
weeks. H14
Adult male galago, handsome, romantic and
proven fertile, has own territory, would like to
share with you. Send photo when applying. D2
Estrous female pigra howler, intermembral
index
99, anxious for mates, pigra or palliata,
one or
more, you know how we get. Interest in leaf-
eating and unripe fruit a must. P8
Recently-deposed former alpha male giant
pygmy chimpanzee would be happy to entertain
any and all attentions of a female who is not
embarrassed by my ignominious drop in rank
and banishment from my group. L12
Molly, I am going to go to the
lunar colony
soon. Things are no good here for me anymore.
I have been promised an unlimited supply of
fruit, and they say the testing is not that
invasive. Will you come too? Bubbles. S4
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