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any fighting which I find amazing, except the sex ratio is 6•2 and the second female is only 14 mos old & clearly looks juvenile. 

(However, within a day she begins to show very frequent mounting of males,

Indeed the males are also mounting each other)

The major strange development is that all animals except infant Mark and Mother (alpha ♀) spend incredible amounts of time & energy stimulating themselves to defecate & eating the feces.

Feces sharing & stealing

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is a major event with infant Ron & animals 5, 6, 7 all treating shit as though [[strikethrough]] they [[/strikethrough]] it were a pinkie.

The amazing part is how they stimulate themselves by scratching the anus.

In some 5-minute focal animal samples you will get an animal shitting & eating as often as twice.

The animals are in good physical condition; their coats are dark (although not so much as wild GLTs).

They are moving well on branches, altho the older animals spend much time on the cage wire & ^[[wooden]] supports.