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.
Script from an actual conversation I recently had (inadvertently) with a few friends. Friend 1: "So, what are you going to do?" Friend 2: "I'll have to do something different... I want it to be.. be... more like... I have to start thinking out-of-the-box like Jackie" Jackie: "What box?" ;) Source: http://www.fromupnorth.com/2011/03/various-quotations-222/ Finishing your PhD is hard work; you spend a great deal of time swimming around in your head, trying not to drown in your thoughts. I’m not sure how successful I have been with this lately. But what’s for certain is that I’m not blogging about it, cause it's been a while since we last chatted, eh. :) I love what I do. I love gibbons. LOVE.THEM. But not every part of doing what you love is that wonderful. Sometimes it can be grueling getting from point A (blissful life in the forest) to point B (back to blissful life in the forest). As many of you know, I haven’t always been a fan o...
Comments