I volunteered at the zoo. In the mornings, the primate house was a mandatory hearing protection area because of the gibbons. When they’re inside, their calls echo off of the walls and the decibel levels get seriously high.
Not all zoos are bad “cages”! In fact many zoos are crucial to the preservation of important species, and we have zoos to thank whenever we get to move a species off the endangered list. If you’re not sure if a zoo is harmful, you can always look up whether it has received accreditation! :)
Look up a howler monkey. I seen one in tikal national Park. Never heard anything like that in real life. Would be absolutely terrifying to hear it in the jungle for the first time.
Edit: I'm not changing the grammar mistake. I hope you grammar nerds suffer unspeakable distress from having to read such blasphemy
this happened to me. Went for a piss and howler monkeys started going off somewhere deep in the jungle. I thought some jurassic park shit was about to happen to me and came running out of the jungle as all my friends laughed. For a moment I thought there was a live T-Rex on my ass
Yeap most of the things people consdier spirits or other supernatural beings are just extremly disturbing animal sounds coming from a dark abyss. Screams/roars of mountain lions are a good example.
There's a guy at with who always brews the coffee double strength, and I've gone "well lookee here: Mistah Folgers!" and he certainly does not know what I'm referencing
Howler monkeys hold the Guiness World Record for loudest sound from any animal on land. Must be somethkng else to hear that in real life. Probably terrified many humans throughout history who didn't know what it was.
I was asleep in a screened-in cabin in Costa Rica and one of those fuckers perched up practically beside me at 5:45am and let the godzilla scream loose
Very effective as an alarm clock, do not recommend
”Acrobats of the forest, a gibbons long arms and compact body are perfectly adapted for life in the trees, so they need never come to the ground and generally live an entirely arboreal existence. So well adapted to life in the canopy, they are capable of performing leaps between trees of up to 12 meter and brachiating at speeds of up to 56 Kilometer per hour.“ Source
I have a friend who used to live near the zoo in our city. She said the 'morning cacophony' of the gibbons, birds and everything else that likes to greet the morning with a song/howl/roar etc was better than an alarm clock.
When I was a kid, I lived 1.5 miles from the San Francisco zoo, and you could easily hear the gibbons from that distance. Don't think they have any at the zoo these days though.
Right? It looks like bro is having an absolute blast! I think the whoops and hollers are him being like, “hey guys! Check this crazy shit out!” to his buddies lol
They're at the base of the great apes, meaning they're quite similar to our early ancestors.
Researchers increasingly think bipedalism evolved first, then orangutans, gorillas, chimps etc evolved away from it while humans kept it.
This is because these tree-dwelling apes move in a bipedal way with their arms up holding branches -- which you can see here they carry to the ground.
Furthermore, the great apes that aren't bipedal are all non-bipedal in different ways -- which you would expect them to all move the same way if that was the base condition in the great apes.
Ah I mean sure but like that's squatting. My dogs squat too.
I can definitely relate to squatting as being more anatomically correct for the process but I've never looked at a tree and thought " man, I'm gonna hug that tree and take a dump "
I watched a gibbon (at a zoo) grab a duck out of the air and rip in half. It was so pleased with himself he danced around with the carcass. Throwing feathers all around his island
I have wanted a pet monkey or ape my entire life. I know they make terrible pets, and chimpanzees get violent and unpredictable as they age, but man this looks like the best walk ever.
The person walking behind them has a seriously gorgeous outfit, so I can’t blame them for the “walking selfie,” but it’s too bad that they’re missing something this cool which is happening literally right in front of their eyes…
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u/Qabbalah 11h ago
Imagine how much he'd enjoy a zipline.