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Do they eat lichens? Or bracket fungi?

Hi Elektra! Thanks for your comment. These giraffoids browse leaves, but also will eat all those lichens and mosses hanging from the branches, and yes, a variety of fungi as well! They're clever enough to know which ones are poisonous or funny. They also will eat berries and fallen fruits, and then there's something they like if they can get it! The trees

Sorry pressed post too soon! Some of the trees here have delicious sap, but it only gets delicious when they are big and thick-barked ... for protection when they're still saplings they have truly noxious sap. When they become big the sap becomes sweet, and then the thick bark around the trunk protects them. But there are phantom nightmonkeys in the forest as well, and they gnaw at the smaller branches higher up which don't have bark that's as thick. And they drink the sweet sap. But sometimes after they're finished, some of the sap will keep dripping down . The monkeys are nocturnal and the Ogahapps diurnal, but they will sometimes in the early morning meet each other, and the Ogahapps will go to where the monkeys had been feeding where there will sometimes be coagulated pools of tree sap, and they'll eath those!

Now I'm fascinated by the idea of 'phantom nightmonkeys'. Don't let cactuscafe hear you say that, it will end up in a poem...

I could always make a painting of the nightmonkeys as well ...

Oh, yes. Wantz phantom nightmonkeys...

My world, my world, the phantom nightmonkeys! they will trip me off I know they will ..... ... you know me too well. .

Wondrous picture, Willem.

Its the way you manage to draw the motion, the curve of the neck, the movement of the animal, you know, like your lines aren't static, it is as if the picture is animated, as if those animals are moving, know what I mean?

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i'd like to see the phantom night monkeys too.

Right, folks! I'll see when I can get onto the phantom monkeys. One question: should I send it in to Around the Day in 80 Worlds? Since it's the same world as the giraffoids ...

Absolutely. We'll call it a 'special update', and not include it in the number of worlds.

That sounds like a plan!

This is good news!