day one-hundred-and-fifty-five - siamang

i sure do love me some gibbons. they pull so many great shapes with their lengthy limbs:

© jem barratt

other reasons to love siamangs:

- they look funny on the ground
- they wave their arms like an inflatable caryard man when they run
- they have funny faces

© jem barratt

- they inflate their throats to make an incredibly loud noise
- and they can fully swivel on one hand

yay for siamangs! go see the trio at the adelaide zoo - they're noisy, they whip around the treetops and they love to start fights with much smaller monkeys as well as the other gibbon couple on show.

xj

day fifty-two - sketchez

no excuses, but this is all you get:

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AND this.

oh! and also this:

you're welcome.
xj

day nineteen - gibbon

to make up for my lack of effort yesterday, today i will display TWO animals.

first we have one of my favourite animals (a descriptor i tend to give to most animals), the gibbon. they are amazing, from their exaggerated limbs to their ball-and-socket wrists (allowing patented 360 degree SWIVEL ACTION in the trees) to their goofy expressions they're just the best!

© jem barratt

this one is unnaturally sad. maybe because he is being figuratively crushed by "man's economic world". (sketchbook courtesy of art-man about town chris edser, by the way). but usually they are laughing it up, racing around the trees or annoying the crap out of tigers.

OR eating their own crap: