[Trevor Conway]

Cheers, Jim!

I'll keep all that in mind.

All the best,

Trevor

Originally Posted by Jim Ramsey

Hi Trevor,

I agree with Glenn that your investigations of the natural world and science are interesting places for poetry to go. This one confused me in a couple spots but I eventually worked out the details of the chase, what chimp was doing what. You might think about making it clearer though. Some random thoughts in case you can use the info in some way, groups of primates are called troops, just like herbivores run in herds and birds mingle in flocks, each group of animals getting its own name. Plus, I checked on line and apparently the plural of colobus is colobuses. If you choose to, I would only use troop to refer to one group though, the chimps or the colobuses, so readers don't get confused. The last stanza provided a nice surprise.

All the best,
Jim