Some messy stuff (Moroccan style sticking on me)

After an awkward and harsh week in my hometown, dealing with many personal issues, I ran away again to my current adoptive home, Azrou, before expected, arriving the 29th. This time, I chose to have a shorter and calmer (though more expensive, of course) trip back; and I took two planes. Now, after five weird days and one of the oddest new years of my life (though I cannot complain, at least this time I could sleep in a warm place!); my room is empty of people and full of memories. All the people that were here when I started (but the PhD student, of course) have already left...however, there are new arrivals. Yesterday, a new Ph D student came to start her thesis on the interaction between tourism and macaques (sounds pretty interesting) and today one of her three assistants landed on Azrou (He has no name yet, I didn’t understand from which state he came, but he is American, they are everywhere!). I have to beg the PhD Student II for a little position, just in case. My time in Azrou is coming to the end sooner than expected and I don’t feel ready to leave…

But well, this was supposed to be a blog about biology and the life of a new biologist, not Bridget Jones' diary (even though as I’m the author I can write whatever I want! F&%ck!... But I will force myself to speak more about bugs and non-human living organisms). So, I promised some funny stories about macaques and it’s time to do so, but I’m not feeling like doing it and I should go to sleep to work tomorrow (so “Why the hell are you writing then?” You probably wonder…) but I can post a couple of videos of the juveniles of the tourist site that, even if they are not of a very good quality, I think they are fairly funny (“menos da una piedra”, that we say in Spanish). I will try to put a couple more of post before leaving (ñe!), hopefully!.




In this video we can see one of the juvenile females (Neptune, if I'm not wrong...) carryng an infant in a quite untraditional manner, accompanied for a while by Windy, another juvenile female, one year older, and, at the end, the dominant female of the group, Luna.




In this other video, probably too short, we can see one of the favourites hobbies of Luna's infant (again, if I'm not wrong; I still have some problems to recognize the juveniles, but the infants are, again another level). This infants likes to mess around with the boxes that we use in the cooperation and intelligence experiment.

That's all for today, sorry. Hope to have more soon.


PD: Today the Californian left, so I wish him a good trip back home. Hope to see you again ( Hoping is free!). Good luck, man. Thanks for having been here.