Identifications

I began work today learning the identifications of the monkeys in my group. According to the other researchers this process takes about 3 weeks. At one point, a female walked up to a dominant male and started grooming him, a process that reminds me a lot of a trip to the hairdressers. The females part the fur, search for bugs, then slap the fur away (pretty forcefully, in fact). It's pretty funny to watch!