I hope you enjoyed the photo safari.

About not expecting the red-bottomed baboons … did you think we make this crap up? Of course not. I bet those horny little baboons were really going at it. I understand that, unlike Shalampaxians, they have no qualms about bearing children. Of course, baboons are farther off the evolutionary tree from Shalampaxians than bonobos are, which might explain why it’s their bottoms rather than their vaginas that turn red.

Interestingly, while internet access was either unavailable or was prohibitively expensive for very slow connections – I was thinking about Shalampax or more significantly Openfly and her new commitment to breeding, and wishing I could contact the cadre of Shalampax Speaks authors.

I happened to visit a large baboon colony and shazam there were female baboons with red bottoms breeding willy-nilly. Who would have expected that?

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