2 seniors asked for someone to join their project studying a bunch of free-ranging silvered leaf monkeys in e zoo, which involved observing & recording their behaviour & tracking their ranging patterns. I could watch animals & draw maps all day so why not? though it meant waking up early to get to e zoo at dawn & spending 11 hours a day in rain & shine getting a neckache, tracking e animals by foot as they moved around e entire zoo, & if one were not careful, getting peed & pooped on by e monkeys, enjoyed it enough to join an expedition 5 years later to study orang utans in jungles of Sepilok, Sabah.
however circumstances (including SARS) made more than half e original expedition team pull out, including those with e relevant technical experience. we left them with most of e admin work & pre-expedition stuff taken care of, & also left with e resolve to find another expedition where we could contribute whatever expertise we had & be useful to e partnering community.
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