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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...

"Gibby was collected from Bangkok in February 2008 at the age of 6 years, after being kept as a pet. Her owner looked after her very well, however, Gibby has a very loud singing voice and neighbours started to complain. A decision was then made for her to be donated to the [Gibbon Rehabilitation] project. Gibby is a different species of gibbon, known as a Golden-Cheeked gibbon, which are native to Indo-China. Gibby sucks her thumb, which is often seen as a comfort [behavioural defect] if they were removed from their mother at a young age. At present we are awaiting blood tests for her disease status before she can be moved to our rehabilitation site, where she will be part of our education at our viewing area." My family just adopted her for two years. You can adopt a gibbon too, just go to this website for more details: http://www.gibbonproject.org/ Thanks Mom :)

I know. I'm obsessed with photographing sleeping monkeys. It's just so funny.

Oh hello. Remember when I used to blog…It’s been weeks! I know, I know. Since my inbox is jammed with WHERE ARE YOU messages, I think it’s time for some updates… See all the posts below for the Thailand lo'down.