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
