君子不器
In March we saw a big brawl between two rival gangs of monkeys in Lop Buri, Thailand, and then their final take over of the town. Then, in June, came a life sentence for Kalua, the alcoholic Indian monkey who terrorized over 250 pedestrians and will be spending the rest of his days in solitary…
Gibbons in landscape, 1575 – Sesson Shukei
TIL: the recently discovered tianxing gibbon was given the name Skywalker in honor of Master Luke. However, the full Chinese name of this fellow is ‘tianxing baimei changbiyuan’ 天行白眉長臂猿, which is literally ‘Skywalker white brow gibbon’ because of the creature’s distinctive eyebrows.
The past, present, and future of gibbons in China Gibbons (Hylobatidae) were widely distributed across much of China during recent centuries, but are now restricted to a few small areas of Hainan, Guangxi,and Yunnan provinces due to massive habitat loss and hunting.Six gibbon species have occurred recently in China. Two of them (Hylobates lar and…
“Gibbon paintings in China, Japan, and Korea: Historical distribution, production rate, and context” by Thomas Geissmann, Anthropological Institute, University Zürich-Irchel “The gibbons’ role in Chinese art and literature was so important, that the genre also spread to Japan and Korea, although neither country ever belonged to the gibbons’ habitat. The history of gibbon paintings has…