He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother.
Category: Cercopan, Monkeys, Nigeria, Uncategorized | Date: Feb 06 2008 | By: admin
After a week observing Abonema and Murphy in adjacent quarantine enclosures, we finally placed them together on Monday, and as you can see they are already inseparable. Indeed, Murphy spends most of his time clinging to Abonemas chest or riding on his back.
Murphy’s new means of travel
Unfortunately, no matter how close the two male Managabeys have become, food is still their number one priority and as a result we are being forced to find more and more ingenious ways to prevent Abonema stealing all of Murphy’s milk. Generally with patience, cunning and well timed ‘food bribery’ however, we can lure Abonema into another enclosure to allow Murphy enough time to drink his bottle in peace. The two will now remain together in quarantine until Murphy has competed his full three months and then we will have the complex process of trying to integrate them into a suitable social group.
Murphy gaining comfrort from Abonema
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5 Responses to “He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother.”
Wanda, Atlanta, on 06 Feb 2008
Great pics so good to hear positive post - I love it –
Christine C., on 06 Feb 2008
Adorable pictures! Is this close attachment common behavior between male managabeys?
THERESA SISKIND, on 06 Feb 2008
We could learn a lot from these two! I’m glad they are together. Thanks, Claire.
F. J. PECHIR, on 06 Feb 2008
Just wonderful! Thank you very much for your work!
cathy-california, on 06 Feb 2008
Too precious. Is it more difficult to integrate two Managabeys vs one at a time? I just love little Murphy. Did his prior owner ever visit?
Thanks so much.
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