I have been bra shopping and the new bra that i got (minus matching pants :( ) is a sizer bigger than i normally buy. Therefore i have been examining the current environment i find myself in to look for a correlation between behaviour change and bra size. Here are my suggestions:
1) Monkey wee on the skin. Most of the Gibbons here have cages with floors a couple of meters above the ground in an effort to get them to understand that they live in the trees not on the ground. This means that several paths go under Gibbons cages and certain Gibbons have perfected the art of peeing on people as they swing overhead. its quite an art, and quite a way to start the day at 6.30 am.
2) Eating copious amounts of Thai food. All food is provided at the zoo so i eat peanut butter toast for breakfast, but come lunch time am starving so usually dig into two plates of cooked Thai food (typically rice, satay potato's, stir fry vegetables, sweet and sour chicken, bread crumbed potato, fried corn cakes). Bu dinner time it is cooler and i am still hungry so i usually have 2 more plates of Thai food from the buffet. Perhaps its not only my chest size which has increased?
3) learning monkey. Most monkeys communicate with us in some way, Xss's favourite does a repetitive kissing motion then turns around and scratches his backside and front at the same time while looking back. Apparently this is nice. They also make lots of noise and it is hard to not copy them and try to interact through crazy facial actions whilst feeding them. Are bizarre facial exercises responsible?
4) Constantly standing in poo. Everyday at 9am, straight after breakfast each team has a 'special task' these often include cleaning out pools in the enclosures. ALL of the animals enjoy swimming and then pooing in their pools. Therefore each day we take off our shoes and climb into a partically drained pool to bucket out the rest of the water and scrub it with a handheld brush before it is refilled. Is bear poo a brilliant fertiliser for growth?
5) Sunshine and water. It is hot here, we know its going to get hotter as we travel more, so we try not to complain, but most of the time it feels like someone is holding a hand dryer to your skin as soon as you step out of the shade. This is accompanied by drinking mugs full of water on each and every break. Is an increase in energy input responsible?
6) Living in mild peril. Some of the monkeys here are a little aggressive when you go near their cages and you have to stay back from them. Even ones missing limbs like Bandit below (one armed bandit!) try to scare you. The animal most people are scared of though is Randy the horn-bill (whom Xss actually likes) i was in his cage cleaning out (very hurriedly at that) whilst someone else distracted him from outside the cage with a stick (he thinks he's a dog). However, that got boring and he swooped for me. As i ducked in a hurry i fell on my backside. It was funny, but i then ran out the cage as quick as possible. Does fear give off a growth hormone?
Bandit giving a thoughful pose
7) Small Thai peoples. Thai women are undoubtedly smaller than me in everyway. It is indeed possible that the whole country mislabels their lingerie on purpose just to boost self esteem? Seems nice if this is true. In England we like to steal self esteem and when you go to buy your wedding dress, the day you want to seem slimmest, they mark up the sizes so that you order a dress 2 sizes bigger than you normally wear. That almost made me cry. Isn't that sad.
well, there are numerous positive correlations here but as to them being cause and effect? All i can say is that i am happy, relaxed and smiling inside and out so who cares.
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