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Let me piss - Howler monkey, bearded monkey (Alouatta seniculus). Civilized humans no longer urinate like that, humans have a politely closed little room where they deposit their waste and draw water, sending it into oblivion from an ignored cesspool until it contaminates the surroundings and overflows. The pissing monkey is an ignorant sage who does the right thing, because the monkey and the forest have existed for hundreds of thousands of years. Our protagonist advances in the forest, he returns the nutrients that the forest offered him. Thank you for the fruits, lady tree! Thanks for the minerals, mister monkey! The current 'civilized' man has existed for a few hundred years and in that very short period of time he has already done a lot of damage, endangering an absurd amount of species and himself. But what can I do with this not-so-problematic 'waste'? There are certainly worse things, but remaining on the subject of the photo: if the monkey's pissing is commendable, what would be a 'civilized' human attitude, and commendable? Let's get out of the box, it all starts with curiosity… let's google urine! And… dammit! a subject so hidden from normality pops up in a thousand directions: curing diseases, washing your eyes, sharpening your immune system, composting, fertilizing plants, strange ideas... It is true that it would not be commendable to go pissing everywhere, like the ape, the 'civilized' human have lot of technologies to become aware of the forgotten waste, there are many ways, but to name just one: biodigesters for the production of inputs that do not poison. What really surprised me was the caboclo cowboy when, in the corral, tending to cattle, and one of the cows spurted a waterfall of urine. I walked away, but the caboclo approached, cupped his hands and looked at me smiling, collected the golden liquid and washed his face pleasantly, smiling at me again. I felt the disgust of every 'normal' person, but it didn't last long. Curiosity jumped into the corral, looked at the smiling cowboy, an old man with a child's face, a child's skin, a child's life.

A130_6851 - Leonide Principe Equipment: NIKON D2X with lens AF-S VR Zoom-Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G IF-ED set at 200 mm - Exposition: ISO: 100 - Aperture: 2.8 - Shutter: 1/30 - Program: Normal - Exp. Comp.: -0.7, Original digital capture of a real life scene - Original file size: 4320px x 2868px Location: Paraná do Ariaú (Iranduba - Amazonas Brazil) Date: December 21, 2010 - Time: 4:38:20 PM Collection: Monkeys - Persons shown: none Keywords: guariba-ruiva, Alouatta seniculus, bugiu, macaco-uivador, red howler monkey, macacos, apes, monkeys, primates, mamíferos, mammals, FAUNA, animals, paraná do Ariaú, Ariau parana, Iranduba, Amazonas, Amazônia, Amazon, Amazonian, Brazil, Brasil, Brazilian, América do Sul, South America EN1 Let me piss A130_6851 PT1 Deixa eu mijar A130_6851 © - Leonide Principe, all right reserved https://leonideprincipe.photos