Blast from past…
In one of my first Prada dresses, about 7 years old, battered little Burberry bag superglued together… and the iguana’s name is Iguana probably because the handler didn’t want to bother with teaching me the animal’s real Thai name… I don’t know what the furry thing is but it was almost weightless (Iguana is surprisingly heavy) and I’m in this weird position because I had to keep it from pawing at the other animal (which is quite dumb, come to think of it, because Iguana had serious CLAWS – the handler was going “No bite, no bite” and I was Who Cares If It Bites)….. and then also I remembered seeing someone pose with these animals and get peed on.
Lessons learnt from life experiences? a) if you have to be near things that might pee on you then you should take precautions to avoid being peed on, and b) you shouldn’t be pawing at things that have CLAWS.
Metaphors for Life, really.
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You look good in the photo despite in a unconventional pose. Can see your well-toned arm muscles. The furry animal is a loris (either slow loris or slender loris). Look at it, hanging on your arm for its dear life. I could only see the feet of the iguana, couldn’t even figure out where its head is. At first glance I thought you were holding a dead skinned animal in that hand.
Thanks, muscles I never noticed I had… I thought the furry thing was a slow loris but it wasn’t moving very slowly; do slender lorises move any faster? Iguana is staring straight at the camera…
I found this info online about slow loris:
“That doesn’t mean that they can’t move quickly”
so I guess it can move quickly when it wants to.
That furry animal really does look like all the slow loris photos online.
Thanks for the details. I can finally make out the Iguana’s head in the photo. Is it a Antillean Iguana?
Loris and the Antillean Iguana are listed as “Endangered” in the IUCN Red List so what is the handler doing with them in Thailand?