I am so glad you are there to look out for them Arroz. Thank you.

I, too, love the underdogs. That's why I get so attached to the smaller, weaker babies.

Fortunately arroz is there and I know he'll try to help however he can if he can.

Skinny and Skimpy reminded me of Tina and Tiny last year! 😭 I wish them well!!

It will be interesting to see how Skimpy fairs as the spring and summer role around. She looks well nourished here but likely because she was still getting some milk from mum. At least she knows how to forage and with berries and new shoots coming up she will get something. Like you, I am all for the underdog, hence my love for Tiny, Tina, Knotty and the others who have to work so hard to stay alive. At times like this it might be better to be a part of a smaller troop. Maybe there is more to go around with less competition. I know you do what you can for them, Arroz and we are all appreciative of that and thank you for the videos.

If tiny and tina can make it, i have faith. Look at how much that baby has come around. He ia learning to climb and getting bigger.. Nature always has a way.. I have faith..💕💕

the baby is soooooo cute, gentle and quiet

Thanks for another great video. It's heartbreaking to watch them forage for just a little morsel of crumbs. I know you help the underdogs.

these are the quietest macaques I've ever seem. I'm for the underdog!!!

@ ARROZ...😢😪😪 I was ALREADY tearing up .... Then you come with THEE SADEST PIANO 🎹 SOLO....DARNNNN😢😪😳😳

Love ❤️

It looked like there might have been a few sunflower seed shells where they were salvaging. But, I couldn't tell if it related to what they were picking up. We're always rooting for you Skinny and Skimpy.

It looks like Skinny is finally healthy enough to have a winter coat! And she looks to be putting on some weight too.

They look healthy, well done.

*Count me in as one of those that has always loved the underdog or the runt, etc. I swear watching Skinny and her baby - one imagines the baby asking mom/mum - There’s all that food - why can’t we have any? What would they do without you? I agree they aren’t losers. They are survivors! Thank you for being you!*

Arroz if you could, It would be very helpful to make an educational video about their hierarchy and explaining how it works. Like who would be next in line to take alpha position, how rank works, the consequences of lower rank going above higher rank etc etc. I would love to learn about it. And there is not a video on youtube yet that really explains it

@parkercummings1906

4 жыл бұрын

I have thought something like that would be useful as well. And also what exactly does it take for a low ranking female to move up in rank ? I know that having girls will help but how many baby girls does it take?

The number of primates in the area is so large that most of the natural food gets foraged away as soon as it blossoms. So the government planted even more natural fruit bearing plants for them but it still wasnt nearly enough yet to sustain them. So they have the government approved feeders. Then this is also one reason they started the neutering program. Then realized that it was working to well and stopped it I believe.

💕💞💕🐒💞💕💞

I get so sad every time I see Skinny’s tattoo reminding all who see her that little Skimpy is her last baby. I want them both to live a long and happy life. Thank you for looking after them Arroz. You are their Guardian Angel. ❤️🐒🌸🦋🌈

@jamessimms415

5 жыл бұрын

kkossor Sad & heartbreaking

@kkossor3046

5 жыл бұрын

James Simms Very.

@loristone8860

5 жыл бұрын

But she has had several infants that have grown up. Every mother has a ‘last’ baby and while it’s poignant it’s also natural. The population has far outstripped the resources to provide for them. The entire troop and it’s surrounding neighbors require human intervention to fed them during the winter months. Logically, reducing troop size through population control is a humane why to address the problem.

Poor things / skinny looks like she's waiting for you to give her goodies Arroz

Is there anyway to send you money to buy food for our under dogs? I would like to help if that's possible. I remember when tiny use to lick crumbs off the ground.

Arroz you have a such a beautiful heart/soul💓&I know you'd feed Skinny/skimpy(others that r low ranking 2) if it's safe 4them since you know the danger already that would come 2 them if they got caught eating what u gave em from a higher ranking🐒member/troop.Your videos r wonderful as always🌺🐠🌴🌊🌞🌸🐬

Survivors

Any thoughts on what is keeping such a large troop together? As you say it sounds like it is the largest ever documented. It's quite an instinct for a troop once it reaches a certain number of members that there will be either some disagreement among alphas or actually there will be alpha that some gravitate to and not others and you start seeing a split in leadership and then the two groups seem to drift apart and are eventually 2 troops with close friendships but definitely separate. There are a lot of documented reasons why a troop with split when it gets to a certain size and the abundance of forage area and the amount of food is usually a main reason, and even with troops that have regular feeding programs they still will tend towards separating when there are a lot of higher ranking members and some that are starting to step into the position of alpha. Its even assumed, when there is no other reason for part of a troop to take off that it maybe that the alphas just know how many they can look after and when there are just to many to manage they are happy to split. And this happens even in troops that are fed daily and have obviously no need to split if it was just all about food. Also, in this troop once the higher ranking members are full and move off will they let the lower ones be given food and not care or do they come back it food is then given to lower ranks and take what they can hold even is already full or will they just be happy with what they have and let the lower ranking members have what comes next?

@kennance115

2 жыл бұрын

Great questions!

And the underdogs love you! I believe Skinny and Skimpy have a special place in their hearts for you. 🐒❤️🐒❤️ Thanks for the subtitles! 🙏🏻❤️

I don't understand. Where they left without food?

@lisa396devoe8

5 жыл бұрын

Yes skull head troop is about 400 members and she's the lowest ranking one of all so yeah there's nothing but a couple little crumbs left! 🙈🙉🙊🙏

Arroz Marisco For these low ranking ones, is there not any natural food for them? If there were no feeders, would the troup starve? Since there are feeders, doesn't that leave a little of their natural food so that low ranking can eat the berries or leaves in the forest or is there just not enough of their natural food for any of them? Will they eat bugs and small animals?

can the cameraman give them something??

I'd venture a guess that Skimpy picked up MAYBE 30 specks of something during this video. Of that I would guess that maybe 1% was actual food. You gotta wonder how much dirt, skin cells, and poop they actually eat in a day. A few feet away there was grass and leaves and bark, the stuff they used to survive on. Now they'll pick up pounds of dirt and whatever else because they'd rather do that in between handouts. It's sad but human feeding has brought about the absolute necessity of human feeding for the survival of the current generation. That's kind of sad to think about. Don't get me wrong, I'm genuinely happy to see them NOT giving up, to see them surviving and Skimpy appears to even be thriving. I know their lives aren't actually as bad as the piano music implies there, thanks Arroz, but being that close to the edge of survival, sucks! It's a life of toil and sadness. Which are the ones better off, the ones who struggle to survive their whole lives or the ones who didn't make it? Most people will say, "well the ones that made it OF COURSE!". Most people don't have any idea what it's like to "just survive", to be that close to the edge. I've been close more times that I'd like to admit, but that being said, even I don't have a clue what it's like to be right on that edge for a whole lifetime.

The largest group ever recorded and there you are......

So is there nothing left to forage on naturally like berries and flowers? 🙊🙉🙈

@navyav8r653

5 жыл бұрын

I seen a post of his once saying the number of primates in the area was so large that most of the natural food gets foraging as soon as it blossomed. That the government had planted even more but it still wasnt nearly enough still. That's also one of the reasons they started the neutering program.

@lisa396devoe8

5 жыл бұрын

@@navyav8r653 yeah well School head troop he says is the largest in the world according to literature 400 members at least and then you got the other for troops with you know a hundred or so the other ones are smaller way smaller but still there's no way they could ever bring enough food to feed those animals! 🙈🙉🙊😱🙏

:')

Poor things. But. There's plenty of foliage. If they stop the goody runs all together they will all go back to the natural way of feeding themselves

Do they ever eat rocks or pebbles to fill their stomachs like dogs sometimes do?

Why does she have a number on her chest? Sometimes I see a callor on one of them also, why?

This sad i didn't see nothing there myself

Couldn't you sneak a little bit of food to them

@terryford8280

5 жыл бұрын

@Bette Arel....my thought as well!!😁😁

@manderson4386

5 жыл бұрын

He will when and if it is safe. If the higher ranking monkeys see Arroz feeding her and Skimpy, they will be punished if not killed.

You always take a film on skinny but I have’t seen you giving her a single sweet potatoes considering she has a baby to nurse ang this is heart breaking, poor skinny if only I reach you.

Has Skinny been sterilized (contraceptive)?

Skinny has a tattoo on her chest. What does the tattoo mean? She a wedge out of her let ear too. The ear I can guess but what about that tattoo?

It would be nice if skimpy and skinny could go to sleep on a full stomach for once. I also woner if skinny will ever start weaning skimpy.

I think she's really come to depend on what little food you can give them God forbid something happen !🙈🙉🙊

@terryford8280

5 жыл бұрын

Yessss!!👍👍

I hope Skinny isnt pregnant. I cant stand anything to be hungry which is why I feed feral cats. I am thankful for you.

@elizabethrogers8306

5 жыл бұрын

I believe she has been fixed and is no longer able to conceive.

@mikesbabystacey

5 жыл бұрын

Mimi Mc I do the same thing! And the people across the street stopped feeding their cat a beautiful purebred Siamese! She got really skinny so I started feeding her. Then they get a new freaking puppy! Stupid people!

What is that big mark on her chest that looks like a 7?

@elizabethrogers8306

5 жыл бұрын

She has been fixed and will no longer conceive.

@manderson4386

5 жыл бұрын

Once they have been fixed, they tattoo a marking on their chest so they can identify the ones that have been fixed. Sad!

@mynamejeff4883

5 жыл бұрын

@@elizabethrogers8306 I was afraid that might be what it was. She is so low rank that any baby she has must struggle, but this still seems so cruel. I do not look forward to seeing the sad and pointless life she will have to suffer through without a baby and not able to have another. I just pray that nothing happens to this one and he grows up and stays near her.

I would have given you a thumbs up if you had some food in your pockets to give these underdogs.

@elizabethrogers8306

5 жыл бұрын

Sadly, when other troupe members are around it is dangerous to give Tina any food. The others may attack her. He can sometimes sneak her something when they are alone.

@EmmaDee

5 жыл бұрын

Elizabeth Rogers I believe this is Skinny and Skimpy although Tina was high on the “Arroz Monkey Hill Feeding Plan” so my guess is she is very near by. She knows the drill as does Martha and a few select others. You can tell by the way they look at arroz, they have that wanting in their eyes. Hey! I have a question!! So we all see the one young, healthy looking monkey up on fence post. Do you all think she’s one of the low ranking members too or wonder if the troops leaves “Eyes or lookout” to watch the bottom troop members?? I doubt it but just a thought. Wish we could have seen you slip them some goodies!!

Now you see, this is what a TRUE troop is suppose to look like, not the sex-crazed one in Cambodia. Not saying I like watching these suffer, it just makes it more understandable for their struggle and their possible death

They should not be "waiting" to get food anyway. They are wild animals. They don't need to be pitied or fed. They should be able to fend for themselves. People should not have started feeding them in the first place. Human intervention/interfering in wild animals' lives does them no good. It makes them weak and unable to fend for themselves. Smh.