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Gibbons & Me - Part 1 My favorite primates are gibbons and that started when I spent a year in Indonesian Borneo from mid-1977 to mid-1978. My main job was teaching English As A Second Language (ESL) but I had plenty of extra time to explore and I lived with a mission pilot which let me accompany him in trips into the interior where grass runways had been created by rainforest villages. I also had a small motorcycle that allowed me to travel into remote places. One day I was with a family that lived in the rainforest and were doing public health work with local communities. I was with them when they pointed out the edge of the jungle and there was something swinging from tree to tree. It was a gibbon, a lesser ape not a monkey. They travel by brachiation - traveling by swinging from branch to branch and tree to tree by there incredibly strong arms. I managed on shakey photo. The photo in the upper left. I continued to be fascinated and continued my interest. The other 3 photos are images of Bornean Gibbons known as Mueller’s Gibbons. I saw gibbons on my way home during some time spent in Singapore and visiting their amazing zoo. I saw gibbons there as well. I would return to Southeast Asia in 1980 and there a gibbon entered my life again. In the next post I will tell you about it. #Gibbons #Borneo #KalimantanTimur #KalTim #Indonesia #IndonesianBorneo #MuellersGibbon #BorneanGibbon #RainforestAdventure #LesserApe #Apes (at Kalimantan Timur) https://www.instagram.com/p/CXm76NEr2f9/?utm_medium=tumblr

Gibbons - Guardians Of The Rainforest I created this photo art to celebrate my favorite ape and primate; the gibbon. How are gibbons guardians? Gibbons vocalize because they’re singing to maintain family cohesion but vocalizations can also be warnings of danger. Gibbons are also a sign of a healthy forest because they require an intact forest to live, They live high in the trees and travel by brachiation (using their strong arms to swing from branch to branch and tree to tree). Obviously you can’t swing from tree to tree if you don’t have trees! #Gibbon #Gibbons #LesserApe #Arboreal #TreeDwellers #Ape #NotMonkeys #Brachiation #Primates #SoutheastAsia #SouthAsia #KeystoneSpecies (at Southeast Asia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLvAvPIFfHY/?igshid=4dgqmlrrhelv

Gibbon in a Tree Contemplating Hyper Reality 14 (Last in Series) By Jeri Rae From a photo supplied by Typorama app. ***************************** Gibbons are my favorite ape. I first got aquatinted with them in the rainforest of Borneo. A couple years later, while volunteering at a refugee camp in Thailand, I stayed in a run down building where a gibbon was kept as a pet in a tree (much less enlightened in those days). The singing was wonderful unfortunately the only nonhuman primate listening was a macaque in a neighboring tree. Gibbons really do suffer from exploitation as we as habitat loss. There are several great charities like the @gibbonconservationcenter and @gibbonguardians and @grp_phuket that could use your help. ***************************** #Art #Artistic #HyperReality #PhotoManipulation #DigitalArt #Gibbon #Ape #LesserApe #Gibbons #GibbonApe #SoutheastAsia #SoutheastAsianWildlife #Wildlife #painntapp #typorama #iosphoto

Gibbon in a Tree Contemplating Hyper Reality 10 By Jeri Rae From a photo supplied by Typorama app. ***************************** Gibbons are my favorite ape. I first got aquatinted with them in the rainforest of Borneo. A couple years later, while volunteering at a refugee camp in Thailand, I stayed in a run down building where a gibbon was kept as a pet in a tree (much less enlightened in those days). The singing was wonderful unfortunately the only nonhuman primate listening was a macaque in a neighboring tree. Gibbons really do suffer from exploitation as we as habitat loss. There are several great charities like the @gibbonconservationcenter and @gibbonguardians and @grp_phuket that could use your help. ***************************** #Art #Artistic #HyperReality #PhotoManipulation #DigitalArt #Gibbon #Ape #LesserApe #Gibbons #GibbonApe #SoutheastAsia #SoutheastAsianWildlife #Wildlife #painntapp #typorama #iosphoto

Gibbon in a Tree Contemplating Hyper Reality 05 By Jeri Rae From a photo supplied by Typorama app. ***************************** Gibbons are my favorite ape. I first got aquatinted with them in the rainforest of Borneo. A couple years later, while volunteering at a refugee camp in Thailand, I stayed in a run down building where a gibbon was kept as a pet in a tree (much less enlightened in those days). The singing was wonderful unfortunately the only nonhuman primate listening was a macaque in a neighboring tree. Gibbons really do suffer from exploitation as we as habitat loss. There are several great charities like the @gibbonconservationcenter and @gibbonguardians and @grp_phuket that could use your help. ***************************** #Art #Artistic #HyperReality #PhotoManipulation #DigitalArt #Gibbon #Ape #LesserApe #Gibbons #GibbonApe #SoutheastAsia #SoutheastAsianWildlife #Wildlife #painntapp #typorama #iosphoto

Gibbons And Me Part 2 In 1980 I responded to a request for volunteers to help in a refugee camp for Laotian Refugees in Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand. I was housed with a couple others in a run down house with no glass in the windows. In front there were a few tall trees along a driveway between our place and a family that did both missionary and charity work. In 2 of the trees in the closest was a Macaque and in another tree there was the White-Handed Gibbon. Now I would never be comfortable keeping these primates as pets/guard primates but back then I was not as aware and they were not my primates. One event started me on the road to being an advocate for gibbons. I don’t remember how t happened but or day the gibbon got loose. So I took chase. I followed the gibbon over rooftops and a tree but there was no way I could keep up. Thankfully the gibbon ended up in nearby Wat (Buddhist Temple) where a monk caught the gibbon. I began my journey to not only learn more but to stop the exotic pet trade and advocate for organisations that work with and for gibbons. Those 2 events: seeing gibbons in the wild in Borneo and living next 2 one in Thailand helped make me the Naturalist I am and urge you to do your part to help endangered wildlife. #WhiteHandedGibbon #LesserApe #UbonRatchathani #Thailand #Adventures #RunawayGibbon #SaveTheGibbons #Apes #SaveTheRainforest (at Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand) https://www.instagram.com/p/CXm-YjBrfoX/?utm_medium=tumblr

These guys r online. Looking for a forever home . #whitehandedgibbon #lesserape #smallestape (at Toronto, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4AebTLl6gH/?igshid=1jhi4mwwbhzbh