Cheeky's Blog ;)

Well I have been at the fieldstation a week now. For the most part it is going well and I am enjoying it. Only seen the monkeys once so far which is a little disappointing, but we'll get there. It is still the end of the rainy season, although even in the week I have been here it has already dried out quite a lot. But we have had some rain most days, usually accompanied by thunderstorms. The wildlife is slightly different, I guess because the rain means there is more water about and those animals which like water disappear during the dry season.

We have been limited to two hours of generator per day, and the internet connection requires electricity to work. Hopefully someone is coming to fix the solar soon, and if and when that happens we should have electricity 24/7, which means internet time won't be quite so constrained. We aren't really holding our breath that it will work though, last year people came to try and fix the solar too, but it still didn't work. Apparently they wired it up wrong or something.

Kristy saw the Chimps the other day. I heard them a couple of times last year, but no one has seen them for several years. She got photos too, so that was pretty cool.

Oh yeah, there are going to be a couple of captive tantalus monkeys coming here at some point. The aim is to release them into wild if we can, but at this point we don't know if it will work. It will be pretty exciting to be involved with that though . We can't just let them go straight off but have to try and see how the wild troops around here react to them, and get them familiar with each other, as well as get the captive monkeys used to a more wild type diet.