Primates

Our work team had a f-2-f walking meeting and lunch in Vapriikki. Others left to the office, I paid a quick visit to Vapriikki's exhibition: Monkeys! A primate story. It was very interesting, hopefully I'm able to go and see it again.

Mandrills will make a "silent, bared-teeth face", in which the teeth are bared, the head crest is erect and the head shakes. This may serve as a peaceful form of communication. A mandrill submits by presenting its rump. With aggression, mandrills will stare, bob their heads, and slap the ground. Vocalizations like roars, crowings, and "two-phase grunts" are made for long distances, while "yaks", grunts, "k-alarms", "k-sounds", screams, girneys, and grinds are made at short distances.

Emma and Leevi came in the afternoon, and we had a lovely evening. We watches a movie The Imitation Game.


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