Where are the males?
One night Terkina drifted out of sleep because of her feeling the stimulus to urinate due to her having eaten a lot of juicy fruits hours before. She got up when she realized that she didn't hear King Kong's breathing. She began feeling the side of the nest where he slept, she discovered he was missing. She felt panic enhancing in her. After peeing somewhere outside the nest she wondered around steadily while feeling in the dark calling her mate's name half-aloud for a while. Having not received a reply she waited for a short time then, repeated saying Kong's name over and over again while creeping around. This attempt failed as well and she remembered that King Kong takes a shorter time to "go bathroom" than the time which had been spent locating him. Nervousness began eating her. She cautiously crept towards Kong's friends' nests to enquire whether they know anything about her husband's disappearance or not. As she approached their resting places she only stumbled upon empty nests. Banagi, Keyta and Isuku weren't present. Terk found this strange and began to consider that her life-mate and his buddies were up to something. She wanted what they were doing to be revealed, but didn't intend to do the searching for the truth on her own in this darkness. She decided to inform Inkesha about the situation then, ask for help. She carefully roved to the tree on which her pal's nest was built. Having reached her destination she cautiously climbed up the tree and began waking her friend. She quietly called her name while gently shaking her.
"What is it Terk," she replied sleepily then, yawned.
"I woke up and found out Kong, Keyta, Banagi and Isuku are all gone! I don't know where they are," reported Terk nervously. "Would you help me find them?"
"In this blackness? I think it's best if we take Fari along with us in case we are threatened," she replied. "Fari," she called. "Fari! Fari, do you hear me," she shouted.
She didn't get a reply. The females descended from the tree, Inkesha was startled when she couldn't feel her boyfriend in his nest, but empty air.
"He's not there! Now, I am also stressed," she said anxiously.
A boisterous laugh slashed the atmosphere. The ladies immediately turned their heads in the direction of the noise.
"That sounded like Banagi," indicated Terk. "Let's go that way."
The two travelled towards the source of the sound, as they got closer and closer to it, more noises became audible, soon the girls were able to recognize the owners of the voices and understand the dialogue.
"The Old claims that he saw a giant moth about 45 meters long with a wingspan of about 240 meters wide flying around yesterday. He states it was covered in tan fur; had large blue glowing eyes; black mandibles; 2 feather-like antennae on its head; a curved stinger; 2 pairs of legs a larger and smaller pair on its thorax, and 1 pair of legs on its abdomen; and 4 brown, black, orange and yellow wings. He said he saw it when he was alone in a clearing. It landed not far from him. He decided to go close to it. You won't believe what he reported next," said Banagi while squatting, he put increasing strain in his last sentence. "Aaaaaahhh," he groaned.
"What did he say," asked Kong with skepticism also in the same position letting pressure be expressed in his tone.
He loudly passed some gas, the others exploded in laughter, Terk was quietly giggling.
"Are they doing together what I think they are," she whispered to her friend.
The wind began blowing from the direction of the males to the females.
"Judging by the stench, yes," replied Inkesha quietly carrying disgust in her tone while fanning the air in front of her face with her hand.
"The Old claimed that when he was about 7-8 meters away from the creature it turned to face him and pointed the lower segments of the legs growing out of its thorax towards him while standing on its hind legs..."
"Wait a minute! He had the courage to approach that thing which was bigger than him," questioned Fari while taking a dump as the other two males did.
"I'm unsure this whole thing is true. The Old may have had too much funny fruit or may have dreamt it. So, the irregular moth showing self-defense didn't stop him. He reached toward it, he could almost touch it when it slapped his hand away with one of its front legs. He tried again, this time, it wounded him, by stabbing him in the forearm with that same front leg. The Old cried out in pain then, stared the thing in the eyes whilst forming a glare on his face. He slowly got up on his hind legs, leaned back and peed on it out of vengeance," continued Banagi.
"How did it end," enquired Keyta.
"The moth began squealing in a raspy, high pitched tone, the Old began to flee, it took wing and chased him. It almost gained on him to the extent that it could attack him, but the Old galloped into the forest in time, it had to pull-up," finished Banagi.
Terkina and Inkesha decided to make their presences known. Branches snapped and greenery swished as it brushed against their fur.
"Who's there," asked King Kong sternly.
"Your wife and her friend who were REALLY WORRIED about their mates' DISAPPEARANCES," shouted back Terk madly. "Next time TELL US when YOU and YOUR FRIENDS will go somewhere without us," she yelled with more volume than before fueled by rage.
"Fari, why didn't you tell me when you would be gone," asked Inkesha.
"We didn't even suspect that you would be up this late in the night when we are," replied the albino.
"We were in the faith so far that you are always asleep at the time we occasionally get up at night and get together therefore we didn't even think of telling you we'd be gone," responded King Kong.
"So, you've done this before, not only this time," concluded Terk. "Why do you and your friends get together this late in the night away from the troop," she asked wanting to get an explanation from him and a confirmation of her assumption from him.
"First of all, you're going to find it weird what I'm going to say. You know that it is a habit of females to urinate together with their lady friends, right?"
"Yes," replied both females in unison.
"We, males, have a different habit. It even has a name: synchronized crapping. We do it with our male friends. It starts when one of us wakes up late at night with the stimulus indicating the need to do number 2. Then, he goes to his friends and wakes them up to enquire if they need to go. Even ones who don't need to do number 2 can join. When that's done, we go further from the troop together to not wake them up. Then, we start doing number 2 together at the same time while goofing off. After finishing number 2 we stay for a short while to talk about silly, interesting and/or guy topics," expounded Kong. "By the way, what made you two wake up?"
"I had to pee. Then, I noticed you weren't in the nest. I tried looking for you twice on my own but couldn't find you. Then, I went to your friends' nests and realized they were absent too. After that, I went to Inkesha and woke her up," explained Terkina. "Would you please wake us up next time right before you go synchronized crapping and tell us you'll be away for a while with your friends? We would know the reason why you are gone and wouldn't be nervous and startled due to not knowing the reason of your absence after waking up and noticing you're gone," implored Terk. "You caused us to worry."
"Fari, her request, which is also mine, goes for you too," added Inkesha.
"We didn't intend to cause that in you. We're sorry. We'll wake you next time," responded the silverback earnestly.
"I'm sorry, Inkesha. Will wake you before I leave," apologized and promised the white male honestly.
"Would you return to your nests please? We aren't finished yet and would like some privacy," requested Banagi.
"Okay," answered the girls.
They spatiated back to their places and fell back asleep. A short while later the boys also returned to continue snoozing where they left off.
