Baby Gibbon: meet Rarin.

This video is of the infant in group R, he’s a little over two years old and almost completely independent from his mother now. The last time I was here, he was still in the weaning phase and she spent a lot of time carrying him. Now he’s flinging himself all over the canopy, exploring and practicing his locomotion. His older sister is VERY rambunctious and he is CLEARLY following her lead because the two of them get pretty feisty with their play bouts, wrestling and chasing each other around. In this video, Rarin was crossing over me quite close, so I got out the camera and then he got a bit nervous – you can see he keeps looking down at me, and looking up (at his parents), so I put the camera away to calm him down. But it’s a pretty cool shot, the quality is not the best, it’s a bit out of focus but next trip with the super camera for my research the videos will be AWESOME! Here’s another cool video. This is of Rarin’s mother, Brit, traveling from one feeding tree to another. Gibbons are so great!