Failure
I think I'll be opting out of primate research. I've been working at it since January and already I've convinced and then unconvinced myself that I contracted a fatal disease and messed up countless times getting animals from the kennel. Somethings get better over time, but I've always been absent minded/forgetful/dumb and thats dangerous when combined with these animals. I really really don't want to give up so soon, but aside from my aforementioned short comings the lab's animal manager thinks I'm not cut out for it(and she's the boss). This throws a very large wrench in my plans for graduate school.
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I did some Googling of monkey handling.
Aside from those references clearly not related to care of primates, one entry stood out citing flight attempts, threatening behavior, overt aggressive defense behavior, struggling, crouching, fear grinning, and psychogenic diarrhea. That made for some fascinating and engaging dinner conversation over the past week. Hope things are better.