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cocoa september 2005 - click to enlarge

About a month after Cocoa started back-riding outside of the nesting box, we noticed that Ginger would often leave her alone for an hour or more. Cocoa would make little distressed noises and seem uncertain, but she'd eventually try climbing across different branches, trying to get closer to her mother. She would seem relieved when Ginger would finally come back for her. Cocoa would eagerly climb on her mother's back. Sometimes they would do a little nose-sniffing thing first, and seem affectionate with each other, like it was a happy reunion.

Eventually, we often could not see Cocoa when Ginger left her on her own. Cocoa may have become more adept at concealing herself or finding her own possum things to do.

Cocoa main page
fuzzy face
back-riding
becoming more independent
twisting in the trees
first photo
dangling/clinging/gobbling photos
in the human nestbox
the fierce draggle-ear
Cocoa and Queek
December draggle
late 2006/2007
last photo

mp3:
Bugger Off, Olaf! (16sec, 264k)