VOLUNTEER BLOG #9: MEDITATIONS ON MEANINGFUL WORK (SEPTEMBER 20, 2019)
Greetings all! Here is an account of my work as a volunteer research assistant for the Madagascar Biodiversity Partnership from the 13th to the 20th of September! The more I learn about MBP's work, the more grateful I am to be part of such a fascinating and inspiring endeavor.
The Aye-Aye Follow
On the afternoon of Friday the 13th of September, starting at four o’clock, I joined the aye-aye team for the famously strenuous “full follow” of their nocturnal study animal. We were a party of seven: from KAFS there were myself and Faranky, the KAFS aye-aye team leader, a Ph.D. student from Antananarivo studying social interactions of aye-ayes, particularly between mothers and their children. Along the way to Sangasanga (good old Sangasanga Mountain!) we were joined by five local guides who made up the rest of the aye-aye team: Lidada, Dagah, Deric, Sylvestre, and Herman. We walked up into the high forest, the wildest part of the mountain, the part that hosted the aye-ayes’ nest, as twilight…
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