Chiang Mai Swingers Should Learn From Orangs !

[orang37]

about bloody time ... now that the Sumatran Orang is the first great ape on the verge of extinction ... that my brothers and sisters got some recognition ... ~o:37;

"Orangutans Swing Through Trees Like Acrobats"

Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/07/27/o...html

excerpts :

"Project leader Susannah Thorpe told Discovery News that, in terms of navigating trees, orangutans "can basically do anything: hang from branches or stand on top of them with their limbs in any direction and each limb can be doing something completely different to the others."

...Two orangutan treetop maneuvers really stood out. The first, which Thorpe nicknamed "the quadrupedal scramble," involved orangutans crossing gaps between trees by "scrambling on all fours between the branches at the fringes of the tree crowns."

Edited July 28, 2009 by orang37

[sassienie]

Is this the beginning of a new wild life forum or what?

[orang37]

Is this the beginning of a new wild life forum or what?

Sawasdee Khrup, Khun Sassienie,

I'm just trying to balance out the slithering number of reptile stories told here with a few choice primate tales.

best, ~o:37;

[bojo]

"Project leader Susannah Thorpe told Discovery News that, in terms of navigating trees, orangutans "can basically do anything: hang from branches or stand on top of them with their limbs in any direction and each limb can be doing something completely different to the others."

Perhaps the origin of 'multi tasking'!

Regards Bojo