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Here are four recordings of Nem-nem, talking with us in her way, and laughing. If you listen only to one listen to the last - it is a scream in every sense.

Nem-nem and mommy, Oct 2007 (1:19, 792K, download mp3)

Nem-nem and Mago, Nov 2007 (1:53, 1.1MB, download mp3)

Nem-nem and daddy, Nov 2007 (1:38, 1MB, download mp3)

Nem-nem and mommy, Nov 2007 (3:17, 1.9MB, download mp3)

One day I thought I’d see what would happen if I brought her to hover over Mago, then pulled her away at a distance, than abruptly brought her close to hover again, etc. - while she is looking at him - a sort of form of “boo!” I guess. What happened was that she started emitting these greeting screams and squeals at him, to his entertainment, and this is going on in the second recording. She does it for other people too sometimes.

Recordings Copyright 2007 Richard Alexander Hall or Alex Hall, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States (see). Attribute the recording to me in any public use.

Tia recently related this to me; they had just left a store and, as too often happens, Mago let go of a floating balloon they got in the store and it flew up and away in the sky. Mago commented afterward while they were in the car, and he and Tia talked:

I’m sad.

Tia said she would be sad too, and it would also be sad if any wild animal choked on the balloon. Mago latched on to this thought and began listing any of a number of wild animals that could choke on plastic if they ate it: deer, birds, whales etc, then ended with:

.. or a Truck. (pause, smiles) No, not a truck.

This morning I took him into our bedroom to say hello to mommy and Nem-nem. Nem-nem smiled at Mago and I set him down. He lay his head on her belly and they smiled at each other and she put her hands on his face. Cutest thing I ever did saw.