We're Missing the Chile #14: Brasil edition

Travel log: Aracaju
Home base while in Brasil. Capital and largest city in the state of Sergipe (the Brasilian Federation's smallest state).

Monkey work:
Monkeys are known as macaco in Portuguese (but remember that "macaques" don't live in South America). Little cp met some monkeys that frequent the trees where she is living. I'm told the monkey we want goes by the name of "mico" which generally refers to certain species of Marmosets and Tamarins. Specifically, Goeldi's Marmoset (Callimico goeldii) is called Mico-de-Goeldi and the Common Marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) as well as the Black-tufted Marmoset Callithrix penicillata) are called Mico-Estrela. The Lion Tamarins (Leontopithecus sp.) are called Mico-Leão with another descriptor depending on the species (e.g. the Golden Lion Tamarin (L.rosalia) is Mico-Leão-Dourado). We also know from Saskwatch-esque photos of the creature that it is brown with white head tufties and about squirrel-sized. My bet is the Common Marmoset (see the picture), which is found on the Brazilian northeast coast but has only recently (as in the last couple of decades) been introduced to the state of Sergipe.

Bugs:
Giant green caterpillar probably from the Saturniidae family (it's a moth larva). Sorry, can't do any better than that without putting more time into it than I am willing. So many different species of caterpillar in Brasil! The monkey identification was much easier, there was less than 20 likely species for that!

Foods tried:
-Ate some crabs. Mmmmm...Cancer pagurus.

Drinky poos:
Caiparinha the national cocktail of Brasil! Made with cachaça, sugar, and lime. Note that you can substitute another fruit for lime and still call it caiparinha, but if you use vodka or white rum for cachaça it is called caipiroska or caipiríssima, respectively.
Recipe: 1 lime, 2 ounces of cachaça, sugar to taste, ice cubes

Dances danced:
Forró - a Northeastern Brasilian dance/type of music. It's THE dance to do/music to listen to there apparently, especially during Festa Junina. There is a whole pile of variations and styles within the three major rhythms of xote (slowest), baião (the original forró), and arrasta-pé (fastest).

The Brazil episode (Simpsons, "Blame it on Lisa", season 13 episode 15). Apparently this episode got a very negative response from the Rio Tourist Board. They were mad at the depictions/mentionings of crime, rats, flesh-eating monkeys, the invention of the macarena, etc. The Simpsons people apologized but the controversy became a running gag none the less.

From Crackle: Blame it on Lisa