New Baby

For my one-week anniversary of being at CARE, I’m already celebrating with a new baby baboon! That was fast!  A few days ago word came through that there was a baby baboon in Pietersberg, a town about 4 hours away. And I’m up on the list for raising it! It’s a boy and the people who have him say he is about 6 weeks old, which is pretty young, although that has to be taken with a grain of salt because people very often misjudge how old their babies are. Sometimes they say they are 6 months old when they are really 2 and sometimes it’s vice versa. So I’m off tomorrow (Saturday) to pick up my new baby! I’m very excited but I’m also very nervous. I’ve never raised such a young one and each baboon is different in what kind of attention they need. This also means that the routine I’ve just now gotten used to will change as well. I won’t get to spend as much time in the baby hok, I’ll have to spend more time monitoring (if this baby likes to ride in a pouch outside), and probably get much less sleep.

I’m sure I’ll have loads more to say and show in the next few days after I get this little pink-face (what we call really baby baboons)!