The lithe and acrobatic animal turned out to be Byron. Again. It occurs to me that Byron appears to be doing a lot of work, while Wilson takes the ticket money and is paid to eat ants...
Anyway, I handed him a £5 note and he clambered enthusiastically (though a little uncertainly) into the lower reaches of a small tree.
By the time he drew level with my head, he stopped, and remarked that at the Zoo he did all his climbing on a Jungle Gym, and trees were quite a bit trickier.
I reassured him that he was doing very well — certainly much better than I could have managed — but he eventually confessed that he was stuck, and asked me to help him down.
Reaching towards him he put his arms round my neck and I lifted him back to Terra Firma.
'There's no need to mention this to Wilson, is there?' he asked.
I shook my head, saying, 'Absolutely not — no need at all!'
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