At least there was bagel and spouse time.

There was. It was much better than the alternative.

I'm actually not so sure at this point in our evolution if I want to be studied by tamarins. They have prehensile thumb-substitutes and they just sit at you.

They talked, too, although we have no idea what they were saying. We kept hearing a pattern of staccato chirps and a swoop like a slide whistle.