3 Days Later

The poor monkey body is still stuck in the tree, and at this point, due to the extreme level of putrefaction that can already be seen, the only thing I would be willing to do once it falls is take photos … if necessary. The good thing is that Eva (a PhD student working with my supervisor) is here now at BFMS with the annual field school students. If she really wants the monkey’s DNA for her project, then she will have to get it herself because I’m fairly certain I would pass out if I tried to cut inside it!
Also, the dead monkey is now becoming quite a tourist attraction. The guides have actually incorporated the decomposing body in their daily tours! You can imagine how that goes … “Up ahead you will see a great big strangler fig that is believed to be hundreds of years old. On the left you can see a group of playful Mona monkeys, right next to the monkey cemetery. Finally, next to that big mahogany is the rotting corpse of our dead black-and-white colobus monkey, which is stuck in the Wawa tree. Please notice the swarm of flies and horrible smell of this part of our tour.”