Dang, people! Jump on board!
***I went to the car wash yesterday for a badly needed cleanup of my SUV. I went inside to pay, only to be bombarded by Christmas music. Really? It's a car wash. I can't figure out why they would jump on the Christmas bandwagon so early. The employee who graciously accepted my payment told me they had started it on the 8th of November....we both agreed it was completely ridiculous. I'm sending a message to their Facebook page as soon as I'm finished with this post. What's the point unless you say something, right??? Get out there! Let these businesses know how you feel!!!
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~This semester - my first at UNM (Univ. of New Mexico), I signed up for a "topics course" in Anthropology. I really had no idea what a topics course was, until I received an e-mail from the instructor before class started that the topic is "primates in captivity". Now, I'm really not a big fan of monkeys & apes with the exception of gorillas. But, I had to find a class offered in the evening/weekend/online variety, so I figured I would move forward and at the very least earn another 3 credits toward my degree.
I have been pleasantly surprised at how much I've learned and how interesting the topic is. One of our assignments was to create an "enrichment" item for the primates at our zoo. (see the link for an idea of what I'm talking about) I created this:
It's kind of difficult to tell what you're looking at ~ there are dried beans inside the pvc pipe, and hopefully the spider monkeys will run across the rope, and jostle the pvc which will make a little noise.
~What I'm trying to get to is that the prof. told me my piece was the only one that would be a permanent item, which really surprised me! Class is nearly over now ~ I only have one project left, which is to write a 10-20 page paper on a topic of our choosing. Um, I haven't really started it yet, so I'm going to be very busy for the next 3 weeks.
~If you've never been to our National Zoo (I haven't either), and you're planning a trip to Washington D.C., pay them a visit. My professor has shown us some photos and explained some of the innovations they have made in housing their primates, and it looks fantastic!
Congrats on your enrichment project! Just think: people everywhere will see it and understand how much it will improve the monkeys lives there.
ReplyDeleteThank you! I hope the monkeys like it! Unfortunatley they weren't on exhibit when we went to view our enrichment items, but I plan to go soon to look again.
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