“I got the texts. I just wasn’t in a ‘look but don’t touch’ kind of mood.”
I had no response for that, nor was I given time to come up with one, as Casey had dropped the truth and then gone.
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The chimpanzee harem arrived the Tuesday before Easter, halfway through the month of April. Once again, handlers with expertise in primatology were onboard to make sure everything was done safely and with the welfare of the chimps in mind.
“It’s like your first day of school, Ed.” I held him on my hip outside a huge window looking in on the expanded jungle habitat enlarged over the previous weeks to include twice as many trees, more greenery below, more toys, and even a waterfall. A divider that could be drawn or pushed back to give Eddie privacy in his own space, if that seemed to be his d
