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One of these things is not like the other, one of these things just doesn't belong...

Here is what a normal pig-tailed macaque at Khao Yai looks like: Here is what a mysterious pig-tailed macaque, who came out of the forest and jumped onto my car while I was sitting in it half asleep at 6:00am waiting for my assistant, looks like: WHY THE HECK IS HE COMPLETELY BLACK! Really dirty? Half chimpanzee? New species? Genetic Mutant? I have no idea. But he's recently become the talk of the park!

Pensive.

Chet

Excerpts from Chris McCormack's blog:

What is ‘potential'? It is a perceived forecast of results that is generated both internally by the athlete and externally by peers, parents and experts. It’s not a guarantee. It’s not really REAL. Because it's not something you can hold and touch; it is always something you struggle to grasp, and this inability to pinpoint exactly what it is can be both a curse and a blessing. Getting this balance in sync is the entire name of the game. Hope is an emotion that you tend to push aside...I don’t have to rely on hope. 'Great things happen to people who make great things happen to themselves.' Simon Whitfield said that after he won the Sydney Olympics in 2000. We train too hard to hope that we can win.