one is better than none

Here is our school monkey. We had the first one for fifteen years then it died. The second one lasted a few months. The administration said that was enough but the students weren't happy with that decision so they went and trapped another one. Here he is. The poor bastard lost the lower part of his arm during the capture. He lives in his own shit and they feed him (when there's enough food) ugali, the tasteless hard porridge that we eat for lunch every day. I try to throw him a banana once a day and he almost rips my arm off when I do. This behavior is probably caused by the students taunting and poking him with sticks.

The only time I've ever given corporal punishment to students is when I caught three of them trying to pull a dog into the monkey cage. I chased them down in the rain. Then I made them do pushups until they collapsed repeatedly in the mud. I got one to cry, probably because I ruined his only good clothes that he had just washed. Don't mess with the monkey.