Seeing Monkeys up-close

This is the closest shot I've ever got of monkeys !

[@jenniferlynn79]

It is amazing to be able to recognize Reddy from a video that was so long ago! She was a beautiful gentle momma even back then

[@photadyta]

I appreciate the doodles. It adds a personal touch. I think your content is creative and unique. I think the cast is fabulous as well.

[@angelacarleton9575]

It amazing how looking through their eyes you see what they see is their environment full of possibilities. Thank you for your wonderful videos!

[@dianestidman3282]

I enjoy your videos. I don’t mind reading the comments most of the time because your comments aren’t angry people cursing, voicing about how they want to harm monkeys, & etc. complaining about the vo should do this or that. So far your videos & comments are clean. Please don’t let that other kind of junk come your way. Your work is upclass. Thank you. No comments please, this is for Arroz.

[@darlingnikki1353]

Ha! Went to comments to say I just 💙 your drawings!!! And saw A.M.'s comment below! Yes, your doodles make me verrrry happy 😂

[@jackiechastain4806]

Well you have outdone yourself . One great video once again. Brings a smile to my face.

[@connieboles4008]

I am a new FAN!! Just found you tonight. Thanks so much for all of your hard work and wanting to share it with us..Greatly appreciated. Great work..Thanks again..

[@PrimateProductions]

NOTICE at 02:19 that this mother reared baby that has had no human contact or separation from its natural mother is sucking his fingers/thumbs. This is because mom is currently not wanting his to suckle and so he does it for self comforting. The difference in this and the abnormal thumb sucking seen in captive, human reared monkeys that have been separated from their mothers prior to the age of weaning is pet and other captive monkeys who do not receive proper care and attention (suffering from social deprivation) will do this even all the way into adulthood whereas you will never see an adult or juvenile monkey that was reared by its mom sucking it's fingers/thumb. Wild babies and babies reared by their mothers properly will sometimes do it when they are briefly separated from mom or when mom will not allow them access to her breasts at that time. The majority of the time that you see baby monkeys at their mom's breast once they are past the age of a couple of months they are not actually actively drinking milk but are simply comfort suckling, ie using mom's nipple sort of as a pacifier when tired, sick, frightened, upset, mad or simply wanting the comfort or reassurance of snuggling up to their mother. Just like human infants they have a very strong suckle reflex and it is a built in survival instinct.

[@kkossor3046]

@Primate Productions Not only abnormal thumb sucking but rocking, self stimulation (tapping his chest, etc) head banging, self injurious behavior. All of these behaviors are seen from moderate to extreme. Babies should never be removed from their mothers.

[@jcastanza]

I wouldn't think it would take years. Just enough time or instances where they've seen you are never a threat, not to mention you always represent the possibility of a handout (food). I'm guessing, like most things, the camera doesn't do it justice and being there up that close, physically, seeing and hearing all the little nuances, must just be surreal. At least the first few times. But for most of us, your videos ar as close as we'll get. So I hope you continue to share them! Thank you!

[@HappyQuailsFarm]

I wonder if she feels proud of her baby and your interest in the baby flatters her??

[@dawnlaakson8586]

This was an amazing video to watch......and your doodles look like art to me! Thank you for sharing all your wonderful videos I'm fairly new to KZbin but I just love checking your videos you have made it so easy to do with your titles. Thank you

[@ArrozMarisco360]

Thanks all for your kind words on my doodles ! I was just curious how they could be used to make for a change instead of the standard iMovie sort of animations !

[@carmenzaragoza4340]

+Arroz Marisco Great job!!!! Both the drawings and the images are spectacular and it's great to see the monkeys up close. Thanks for your work!!!!!!!

[@babalou-oo4cu]

+Arroz Marisco Thank you for your videos. I was wondering if you have ever had the opportunity to touch or hold any of the baby monkeys? If so, how did the mother react?

[@ArrozMarisco360]

babalou 3719 I was bitten twice in the past for even venturing within a meter of a baby. Locals told me you have to be a regular feeder for years before a mother monkey would lower her guard to allow one to merely touch a baby !

[@angelacarleton9575]

I personally enjoy your doodles and comments in whatever way you represent the videos. I would especially like to learn more about those "possible flying birds" that seem to fly around in groups and wonder if they truly are predators that might take our baby monkeys away?

[@catg.9034]

Love the doodles, it adds that extra touch

[@jenniferlynn79]

Omgoodness the beginning of the video was Reddy, Bobby and the Baby is the one before Dopey that seems to not have made it in the winter of 2015!

[@MLeibs]

Wow! Fantastic videography!

[@PrimateProductions]

wonderful as always...thanks so much for sharing the results of your work and the time it must take you!

[@jlw22356]

Very enjoyable. Thank you

[@geraldlavelle9788]

I enjoy you're drawings and the monkeys! Thanks! :-))

[@lakesidesusan6745]

Love the doodles! I think the babies are really interested and curious about you l

[@lennarthagen3638]

Reddy is a wonderful mother to all her babies who need love.

[@marybranch3858]

They have beautiful eyes, babies are adorable, and I think the mommies are pretty❤❤❤❤

[@marykennedy8090]

You dId a beautiful job!

[@picketfence2028]

Beautiful.

[@jcastanza]

Wow I've just got to say that up this close, you really get to see not only how impeccably clean these animals are (a lot of people say monkeys are so dirty) without a spec of dirt or a single ear mite, but also how much attention to detail and the precision with which (some) mothers groom. So intensely focused! It makes me think of all the pet owners that give their monkeys baths. They're not meant to wear diapers and need a human bath, clearly no match for bent in their natural setting, in a group, with their mom.

[@ArrozMarisco360]

I've see them close enough often to say most monkeys are immaculately groomed. I read it somewhere that they groom not just for exoparasites but also for salt - the latter is hard to get if you are monkeys a long way from the sea.

[@kimfabbri1784]

The littler one of the two seems to be sad...

[@PrimateProductions]

You are applying human characteristics to them...

[@valerie362]

Wow! I wonder if this was Reddy, I tried to see if she had the one teat and it looks like it. Dopey's older brother?

[@PrimateProductions]

Yes that passed away

[@jessijohnsen1997]

It was Dopeys sister- she passed away and was last seen in feb 2016

[@telly1602]

Beautiful as always. thank you!

[@BluesBewitch]

6:49 is a nice image and 4:25

[@lindamiller3107]

I'd wear thick gloves & carry mace when filming this close, to avoid bites.

[@vg7735]

Is that Dopey? I thought he was younger than 6 years old. It looks like him though.

[@saragriffin809]

wish you could catch a live birth..

[@TheLindalove46]

I really don't know my way around here. Any way was watching the video of Nora, with here her new baby. (7/18/22) I don't. understand why some of the monkeys are sterilized, and the ones who need to be sterilized aren't like (NORA, TINA, and GYPSY) are not. They keep having babies after baby and end up just mistreated them.

[@ariesvirgo4393]

That's Reddy and Dopey's deceased brother...check out Bobby being groomed by Reddy..so you encountered Bossy's troop during your earlier escapades in Monkey Hill😊

[@vg7735]

I just came upon this video...The baby is Dopey's brother? It looks so much like him. He was named Bobby?

[@ariesvirgo4393]

@@vg7735 nope, that baby is gone. Bobby is Dopey's eldest Brother who is no longer with the troop. He is alive.

[@annecorey607]

Very cute babies drinking mommy,s breastfeed lovely big eyes so cute with. Mommy finish drinking milk and is time to climb up the trees on his own till his friend turn up Bless you all good video thank you .

[@milenavukovic3739]

You take to long to start the show. If I want to watch cartoons..I don't have to watch you draw, I'll turn the chanel.

[@oohlalalaurenn]

Lol well good thing your comment went unanswered since it was super irrelevant. Bye hope you turned the channel already

[@Ipfreely124]

Don’t forget to kick em the mud flap.

[@suzzie1311]

The animations are cute touch to the video, one of the monkeys looks like he or she has been in an altercation with another monkey................ Great close ups, Thank you for sharing!