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By
Dr. Oondóué M. Boué
Academie Republique Gabonaise


      Yes, what is it?  But more importantly, where is it?  I have been back in Gabon now for three months at my Makokou Study Area, and I have been unsuccessful in locating a single bluetail.  My colleague, Reginald Pennyworth Maudlin-Jones, whom I have suspected of mental instability for years, and who remained here while I was in the United States attending the Great Apes and Lesser Primates Dinner and the Sigsbee Junior Night College Colloquium on Catarrhine Oddities, has also disappeared.
      My assistant Albert Mbigou and I have searched every bluetail burrow from here up the Ivindo River and back again.  There is so sign of them, and I feel like a researcher for the Los Angeles County Museum of Unnatural History. In fact, I checked my map to make sure that I was in the right country, and I am.  So I believe that Reg has made off with them.
      He did it one time before when I was away, in 1973, and it was two years before he brought them back.  I warned him then that it would be the end of our professional relationship if it happened a second time, as it certainly now appears to have done.  It's a great pity too, because I don't think he has any friends.
      What bothers me the most about this whole sordid business is the fact that when the winner of the 1988 Primate Nooz Photography Contest comes here in the fall, I may not be able to introduce him, or her, to my beloved bluetails.  For this, I will never forgive Reg, and I definitely won't ever work with him again.


     WOW!  WHAT EXCITEMENT!  HOPE ALL YOU KIDS LEARNED A LOT ABOUT BLUETAILS. THEY'RE GUENONS, YOU KNOW.  CERCOPITHECUS SUBTERRANEUS.  DISCOVERED BY SIR RODNEY BILLINGHAM-APPLEGATE IN 1937.  THEY DIG BURROWS, YOU KNOW. YOU CAN TELL YOUR TEACHERS ABOUT THEM!  AND YOUR PARENTS!  AND YOUR FRIENDS!  DON'T FORGET TO GRAB UP EVERY HOT ISSUE OF THE PRIMATE NOOZ
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There will be a symposium on primate evolution in the  beautiful Rainforest Room at the Hellmouth Holiday Inn  this Saturday and Sunday, 10am-7pm, and all members of the local primatological community and any other interested primates are invited. Speakers will include Dr.  Oondóué M. Boué, Mr. Win Wing Wan, Dr. Miedzyrzecz von Czechowice-Dziedzice, Professor  Mitsuo Ohhohoho, Sir Ian Spotswood Allenby  Crofford-Wiggles, Senhor Teófilo Afonso Rosario Sobradinho and Mr. Christopher Shaw. Light  refreshments will be served at teatime, and fruit vendors  will be constantly passing among the audience. Question  and answer period at 6pm.

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“Hello.  I SAID HELLO!  HELLOOO!  TURN YOUR HEARING AIDS UP!  There, that's better. You're probably not getting along too well in the forest anymore..... I SAID.... YOU'RE PROBABLY NOT.... WAKE UP!  You need professional care.  I SAID... YOU NEED PROFESSIONAL CARE!  Crikey!  Look, just come down RIGHT NOW to the Old Primates.... the OLD... PRIMATES... RETIREMENT HOME. It's FULLY PROVISIONED and there are NO DOMINANCE RANKS observed here.  CALL for an APPOINTMENT.  No bluetails please.  I SAID.... NO BLUETAILS!  Crikey!”

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