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What do you do when your older brother stops by for a visit? You tackle him. Gibbons at Play: Check out the awesome acrobatics! Video Caption: The black individual is Chu, he is the older half-brother of Chockdee, the blonde individual. This is a short clip of a 30min play bout between the brothers who live in different social groups but came together in an overlap zone between territories to goof around with each other for a while. Wrestling = FUN, FUN, FUN when you're a gibbon.

While walking in the forest today following monkeys, my field assistant stopped to tell me Batman was in the tree above him. After several minutes of staring at him, I walked over to find these little cuties... [translation of the humourous soundtrack below] Jackie : Bats. Chaleam : Batman. Jackie : Bats. Chaleam : Bat. Jackie : Bats. Chaleam : Batman? Jackie : Not Batman. Chaleam : Bat. Jackie : Bat. Chaleam : Not with man? Jackie : Not with man. Batman is a superhero, the same as Superman. Chaleam : Oh, OK. Batman. Chaleam : Oh, Monkey Boy eats or doesn't eat? Jackie : He's not eating, he's sitting there. Well, maybe he eats now, I don't know I'm not looking at him. Jackie : Ohhh, their moving. Chaleam : They're cold. Jackie : They're looking at us. Note: Monkey Boy is the name of the individual we were following today. Yes, I gave him that name. And I like it.

Found this at the restaurant the other day...