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8asil — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:23:31 +0000

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A Trip to the National Zoo

Aiman Amani Karim — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:47:14 +0000

Two days ago my family and I went to the 'Zoo Negara' or the National Zoo. We were so excited especially my little brother, Ahmad Ali and my little sister, Anisah Afifah as it was their first visit to the zoo.

We arrived there at about 9:40 a.m. and headed straight for the ticket counter. The tickets cost RM15 for adults and RM6 for children. As we were crossing the bridge near the main entrance we saw tall giraffes - my siblings and I screamed with excitement. We rushed there and were welcome by a flock of milky storks. What an awesome sight it was to see the beautiful birds flocking all around the lake. Next we were welcomed by elephants, Pademelons kangaroos and ostriches.

At the bird aviary we saw birds of all sizes and colours. I just love the colourful 'burung nuri' or alouette in French and we started to sing our favourite song- Alouette. Next we saw deers, lions, tigers, buffaloes, camels and many more. It was nice to see the orangutans clinging to the pillars while sleeping in their 'tree house'. Anyway some parts of the zoo were closed for repairs.

At the Savannah Walk, we saw another group of giraffes eating their food, zebras, antelopes and rhinos. We also saw a gigantic turtle that could be around two hundred years old. Next, we saw mousedeers, goats and a tapir. At the end of the Savannah Walk is the bear complex. There are Brown Bears, Malaysian Sun Bears, Asiatic Black Bears and Sloth Bears. Most of them are sleeping. Now I know why Winnie The Pooh is so lazy!

On the way to the Multi-Animal Show, we saw monkeys and lessers in big cages swinging from branch to branch, fishes and humboldt penguins. The show started four minutes late and the performers were three colourful macaws and two sea lions.

After the show, we headed towards the Children's World which is something like a Petting Zoo. Among others there are birds, ponies, scorpions, chickens and porcupines. At the reptile and amphibian house we saw snakes, crocodiles, frog, terrapins, turtle and tortoise. We saw leopards and pumas but there was no jaguar- my little brother Ahmad Ali wanted to see a baby jaguar as in his favourite TV show 'Go Diego Go'. Before heading home mum bought us delicious creamy ice-cream; I guess ice-cream to zoo is just like pop-corn to movies.

We had a wonderful time at the zoo and learn a lot of things too. Anyway I feel very sad to see run down buildings in the zoo complex. The government is proud of KLIA, the Petronas Twin Towers, The Sepang Curcuit etc but look at our National Zoo- what a shame. I hope our government will see the importance of getting the zoo in good shape for it is a very educational place to visit especially for kids like me. Not everybody can afford to pay the entrance fees to places like the KLCC Aquaria and other expensive places to learn about animals so the government has to take actions towards saving and upgrading the National Zoo for it is one of a few affordable places for family outing in KL. Furthermore the place is so beautiful especially the grand old trees, the lake and the streams.

The lovely couple

pixellens — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:42:21 +0000

Chimpanzees rarely live past the age of 40 in the wild, but have been known to reach the age of more than 60 in captivity

A fully grown adult male chimpanzee can weigh from 35-70 kilograms (75-155 lb) and stand 0.9-1.2 metres (3-4 ft) tall, while females usually weigh 26-50 kg (57-110 lb) and stand 0.66-1 m (2-3½ ft) tall.

Monos Mentiras y La Señorita Tula

embajadadelreino — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:40:43 +0000

[slideshare id=260793&doc=monos-mentiras-y-la-seorita-tula-1202696244692467-3&w=425]

En la escuela les enseñan a los niños que no necesitamos a Dios porque somos sólo animales que vinieron de los monos. Pero Susana le dice a su amigo que Dios nos creó y que envió a su Hijo para darnos vida eterna. Un tratado para niños

La vida del actor

Christopher Boone — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:06:02 +0000

La vida del actor principiante es sin duda difícil, aunque no muy diferente a la de cualquier otro ser humano. De hecho, creo que son de nuestra misma raza.

Se levantan como cualquier persona.

Se visten.

Esperan el bus tranquilamente escuchando su música.

Se envían sus mensajes con sus amigos.

Se toman su café y respetan la cola.

Hacen su casting como cualquier... Bueno, yo no hago castings, ahí me han pillado.

Y es que a mí me daría vergüenza hacer según qué cosas... Tú imagina que te piden que finjas tener dolor de almorranas.

O peor... Imagina que te piden que te desnudes. A mí me cortaría, todo tan frío, sin un beso siquiera por parte del director...

En cambio, hay gente que está de lo más cómoda desnuda. Y es ahí donde se nota la verdadera madera de actor.

¿Aún no os haceis una idea de qué tipo de vida llevan? Pues aquí os pongo un vídeo del día a día de uno de estos chicos.

Interesante documento.

Sheesh!

Miss Sparkles — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:01:58 +0000

I started my blog enthusiastically, dedicated, committed, focussed and ready to share my life with the blogiverse. The last two weeks have seen me completely absorbed in my final two assignments. But now they are done and sent, now I just await my results. Hmmm, do I share my marks? I suppose it will make me feel better about myself, something to look back on and say: Damn! Lookie here what I did. Seriously, was that me?

At the start of the year, I didn't think I could do it. I thought that maybe I was kidding myself. But I just dived right on in the deep end and registered for 10 subjects. I dropped 2, because the workload was a bit too heavy. So I proceeded with 8, knowing that 2 would be done by June. Now I'm left with 6 subjects, and all my assignments are completed and submitted *what a relief*

The assignments have been pretty tough, I'm so proud that I actually dedicated myself to all the reading. So here's the skinny on my degree: I've chosen to do a BA (Bachelor of Arts) in Psychology. The degree is 3 years long if I do 10 subjects a year (which I'm not, so it will take me longer). My subjects are African Perspectives (1), Industrial Psychology (1), English (2), Communication Science (2) and Psychology (2). I'll do my remaining 2 subjects next year, Archeology and Philosophy - and that will complete my first year. I'll do an additional 4 2nd year subjects next year, all Psychology. It's a tough degree, but I wanna, wanna, wanna.

If I'm lucky I'll finish my Masters before I'm 36! And know they only select 10 students per year to take on Masters. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well before this dream, I wanted to marry Michael Jackson and become an actress slash dancer slash singer slash producer slash director, so I'm not short on ambition. Personally, I'm a lot more realistic now that I was 10-20 years ago. Becoming a Clinical Psychologist is doable. Winning an Oscar, well that's kinda dumb.

Arghhh, it's just so much time between 28 and 36. Eight whole years - so much can happen to me in eight whole years. But I'll leave that story for another day.

Nuevo Caos Mundial

Lascivo — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:54:46 +0000

En Villaviciosa las cosas suelen ser tranquilas. No hay mucho tráfico, ni contaminación. De hecho, tampoco es que haya mucha gente. Es un pueblo tranquilo. Sin embargo, hoy se ha recibido un extraño aviso.

Me llamo Lolo Gomera, y soy agente de la policía municipal. Normalmente mi trabajo consiste en patrullar y multar. Es aburrido. A las diez y cuarto de la mañana hemos recibido un aviso de una señora en cuya cocina se ha producido un pequeño fuego. A las once estaba todo resuelto. Media hora después, hemos visto un Seat Ibiza amarillo aparcado en la zona de bajada del autobús, frente a un supermercado. Como el dueño no ha aparecido, hemos avisado a la grúa, que se ha llevado el coche. Una mañana normal.

Pero a eso de la una de la tarde, hemos recibido por radio un aviso muy extraño. La mujer que hablaba por la radio estaba muy alterada y no dejaba de gritar. Su voz normalmente debía de ser muy suave, pero los gritos eran de verdadero pánico. Entonces se cortó la transmisión. La radio dejó de funcionar. Totalmente.

Mi compañero, un veterano gordinflón, que sigue patrullando porque es tan inútil que no ha logrado ascender jamás en su vida, estaba increíblemente tranquilo, como si el hecho de que una histérica desconectara nuestra radio fuera algo cotidiano. Yo creo que simplemente pasaba de la situación, y de lo extraño que pudiera parecer. Sólo miraba su reloj cada cinco minutos deseando que acabara ya su turno.

Como no podía contar con mi compañero, empecé a decidir por mi propia cuenta. Total, tampoco me lo iba a impedir. Arranqué el coche y pisé el acelerador. En menos de tres minutos estaba frente al supermercado donde anteriormente habíamos avisado a la grúa.

El caos allí era total. Decenas de personas salían del supermercado corriendo en todas direcciones. A unos metros, donde estábamos nosotros, los curiosos empezaban a agolparse. Sin dejar que mi gordo compañero reaccionase, salí del coche y, pistola en mano, me dirigí hacia el interior del centro, esquivando abuelas y amas de casa que estaban a la estampida.

Lo que vi me dejó verdaderamente sorprendido. Un montón de monos de todas las clases estaban arrasando el supermercado entero. Los había de todas las especies, tamaños y colores. Asustado, empuñé mi arma y apunté a un enorme gorila que me miraba fijamente, a unos diez metros de mí. El gorila, que mediría dos metros (era enorme, en serio), cambió su expresión y se lanzó hacia mí de un salto. No tuve más remedio que disparar, y el silencio inundó todo el local. Apenas quedaba gente en el interior, y estaban tirados en el suelo casi todos. Los monos permanecieron callados, mirándome con una expresión de curiosidad que ningún humano podría igualar, hasta que todos, al unísono, comenzaron a gritar, enfurecidos.

Salí de allí como alma que lleva el Diablo. Me dirigí al coche y grité a mi compañero que pidiera refuerzos. Unas pocas balas no iban a bastar contra un ejército de simios.

En cuanto mi colega agarró el micrófono de la radio, todos los monos salieron del supermercado, encabezados por tres gorilas que llevaban sobre sus hombros al que había matado en el interior. Tras ellos, cientos de pequeños y nerviosos primates iban dejando un reguero de mierdas, heridos y coches abollados. Seguro que desde el helicóptero que acababa de llegar debía de parecer una hilera de hormigas que va marcando camino.

Los monos, ajenos al ruido del helicóptero, siguieron su camino, saltarines y destructores. La gente huía y yo me sentía impotente por no poder hacer nada más. Desde el aire, metralletas impactaban en unos pocos, pero no lograban detenerlos a todos. Unos orangutanes, subidos a los tejados, se abalanzaron hacia el helicóptero, sobrecargándolo por el peso y haciendo que cayera sobre la carretera.

A lo lejos se empezaba a oír ruido de sirenas. Algunos, los que no estaban demasiado horrorizados por lo que pasaba, respiraban aliviados, pero yo sabía que no iba a ser suficiente. Todos esos monos son imparables.

¿Es esto la ley de la jungla?

Lascivo. 11 de Agosto de 2008

Love Me Some Monkey

TheLordThyGod — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:07:29 +0000

Sarawak and the Secret to Self-Preservation

cassylee — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 04:26:07 +0000

As a beast crashed toward my husband and I in the dense Bornean rainforest on the Santubong Peninsula of Malaysia, I remembered a sign at the spa near our eco-resort on Damai Beach that touted “The Ancient Secret to Self Preservation”. That would have come in handy before heading off into the jungle, I thought. In fact, maybe they would have told me that the ancient Malay secret is to not enter into the rainforest at all, but instead to get the three-hour Royal Ledang spa treatment. But we came to Malaysia to see things we couldn’t see anywhere else and which may not be around for much longer depending on the balance the country can create between producing its natural resources for the world market and preserving them for a sustainable future. So even though the urge to flee kicked in, my curiosity won out over self-preservation.
A tall thin tree bent nearly in half as a giant red-brown body rode it to its limit then released it, snapping it back into position as the creature grabbed the next tree. It was a huge male orangutan, with large dark hoods to the sides of its beady eyes, and shaggy matted red fur on its enormous body. For something so cumbersome, it moved quickly toward us, sling-shotting from trunk to trunk and tight-roping on vines that unbelievably supported its immense weight.
Fortunately it stopped at the platform full of fruit between us, then plopped down and posed as it ate, like a furry Fabio hamming it up for the photo ops. I had no need to fear said the guide of the Semenggoh Wildlife Centre, “Ritchie and the other orangutans only rarely harm visitors”. Our little tour group stared in awe as more orangutans appeared. A mother came with her baby clinging to her belly. She deftly scooped up some fruit than scooted back to safety to eat in the canopy high above us, propping herself up precariously in branches and vines to help her fuzzy-headed offspring eat. The youngster’s grandmother even showed up. Here were three generations born in the 1600 acres dedicated to the rehabilitation, conservation and study of these endangered animals. Because so much of their habitat has been lost to logging and so many of their population decimated by poachers, they can no longer preserve themselves and space must be preserved for them in order to survive.
Bako National Park is another place that has been preserved for the unique wildlife and natural resources that thrive in the Sarawak region. It is only accessible by boat through the South China Sea, then by slogging through the mud the last 100 yards or so until dry land. Bako is home to proboscis monkeys, wild boar, blue crabs, and all manner of snakes and creepy crawlies. Our guide, Freddy, was a perfect example of the crossroads of preservation and progress in Malay culture today. As Freddy led us through the dense trails of Bako, he pointed out the flora and fauna telling stories like, “My grandma used this rattan to make baskets.” Freddy himself couldn’t weave a basket if his life depended on it, as many of his generation now depend on tourism, showing visitors the ways of life that are swiftly disappearing.
On our return boat ride up the Salak River, we saw mangrove trees that shone like starlight with fireflies, crocodiles lurking beneath them. We sped by a small village, basically a shantytown on stilts completely surrounded and isolated by the mangrove swamp except for access from the river, the inhabitants living by the fish they caught daily. Our boat driver “Man” told us they just got electricity by generator only very recently. Man himself lived an interesting blend of driving tourists around in boats, practicing the Muslim religion (Malaysia is predominantly Muslim, but is very tolerant of religious plurality), and being known as “Snake Man” by his peers due to the fact that he’d caught several large snakes in the forest and kept them as pets. “Jake the Snake is my hero,” he told us, speaking of the American pro-wrestler with a similar affinity for serpents. Here was a man celebrating Ramadan in the far reaches of Southeast Asia, whose eyes lit up to be speaking to Americans about his slithery passion.
An excellent place to get a further glimpse of the fascinating melting pot culture that is Malaysia is the Sarawak Cultural Village. After a terrific show of traditional tribal dances and blowpipe demonstrations, one is free to wander the seventeen acres of gorgeous land on a self-tour of the different styles of longhouses built by the various indigenous ethnic groups to suit their ways of life. The most interesting to me were the Penan people, nomadic hunter-gatherers who built nothing to last, and lived by the practice of never taking more than necessary. Only about 300 still live this way today in the depths of Borneo, constantly threatened by the loss of the forest they call home by businessmen who don’t live by that motto.
The ancient secret to self-preservation seems to have been forgotten by many in Sarawak, showcased as nostalgia by some, and held on to vigorously by a few, as the outside world creeps in and changes the culture. It remains to be seen what will happen to the amazing biodiversity and rich tradition in this region as it adapts to modernity, but hopefully it will draw on its own secrets, the ones not learned in the spa but in the people and the place itself.

Monkey Business

dantanda — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:53:47 +0000

A Clay Orangutan...

His name is Daniel appropriately enough as this fine example of a Primate was snapped by our precious Mr Dan Tanda whilst attending a crafty fair on his trip to Oxfordhire last weekend. We don't know who the artist is or exactly what the fair was called, but Dan will enlighten us... watch this space!

A SOS Sign from Orangutans

Brahmanto Anindito — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:54:36 +0000

Pongo pygmaeus is species that dwell in Borneo island, and Pongo abelii is species that dwell in Sumatra. They are the only surviving species in the genus Pongo. We simply call them orangutan. It was taken from the words "orang" (man) and "hutan" (forest). Physically, they really resemble human (of the forest). They are the most intelligent primates in the world, beside their African cousin chimpanzee.

Unlike gorillas and chimpanzees, orangutans are not the knuckle-walkers. They walk by shuffling on their palms with their fingers curved inwards. Their fingers and toes are curved, allowing them to better grip onto branches. In addition, the arms of an orangutan are twice longer than their legs.

It makes orangutan the most arboreal of the great apes. They're spending nearly all of their live in the trees. Every night they fashion nests, in which they sleep, from branches and foliage. Orangutans are more solitary than the other apes, with males and females generally coming together only to mate. The females can grow to around 1.27 meters and weigh around 45 kg, while males can reach 1.75 meters in height and weigh over 118 kg.

With those long brown hairs, I must say orangutans are the ugliest ape I've ever seen. However, their population has recently been decreasing. That's sad.

Orangutans as the ancestor of great apes in Asia have been living since two or three million years ago, along the Himalaya mountain range. That means, they've been existed far away from human existence. But then the climate change and the sea surface's heighten made them separate to many forests.

They spread from South to Southeast Asia, especially when the islands of Sumatra, Java and Borneo had unified to one big land. Mostly, those orangutans concentrated all along the main rivers and foot of mountains. They had been living in pleasant with plenty foods resource inside. Fruit makes up 65% of the orangutan diet. Those with sugary or fatty pulp are favored. The other food items include young leaves, shoots, seeds, also insects and bird eggs.

Like the other great apes, orangutans are remarkably intelligent. But orangutans are different. They have shown laughter-like vocalizations in response to physical contact, e.g. wrestling, play chasing, or tickling. And they practice some culture.

At least, that was uttered by Meredith L Bastian. This young researcher from Anthropology Biology and Anatomy of Duke University has been researching the wild Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii in Central Borneo province.

Meredith found that orangutans in Tuanan river speak each other in the sound and tones like a kiss voice. In the meantime, Lading river's orangutan sounds like "tac-tic-toc" at the same effort.

"I never deepen this fact, but I saw orangutans are capable of mind reading their fellows. At the moment, two orangutans just looked at each other, and then one of them gave something that seemed to be needed by another," said Meredith, as I excerpt from Yayasan Penyelamatan Orangutan Borneo.

Orangutan also kiss and hug each other to express the high level of love and affection. And, "When it rained or the sun was too intense, orangutans would seek out a wide leaves to shelter their head."

This finding fits out the previous study done by Carel van Schaik, a Dutch primatologist from the same university. He found orangutans are capable of tasks well beyond chimpanzees' abilities, such as using leaves to make rain hats and leakproof roofs over their sleeping nests.

Carel also found that in some food-rich areas, orangutans had developed a complex culture in which the adults would teach their juniors how to make tools and find food. I know it myself, Sumatran orangutans are acquainted with tools for cracking the solid-peeled fruits.

According to Meredith, if we maintain orangutan's habitats well and keep away the individuals from any (human) threat, it's not impossible for orangutans to perfect their "culture". Unfortunately, here, we always have the problem with hunting and illegal pet trade. About 100 Bornean orangutans took away to Thailand in early 2004, for instance.

Meanwhile, orangutan habitats have been in destruction because of logging, mining and forest conflagrations. But the major problem for now has been the conversion of huge areas of tropical forest to oil palm plantations in response to international demand.

"From total 61.234 individuals in Indonesia, about 70% of them dwell in non-conservation forests or non-protected forests," stated Jamartin Sihite in Environmental Journalism for Orangutan Conservation and Its Habitat seminar which held on July, 11-13 2008 at University of Indonesia. As consequence, the population of orangutans hasn't been well protected, added this Deputy Director of OCSP (Orangutan Conservation Services Program).

If there is not any significant solution yet, OCSP estimates 10 years from now the population will has been decreasing up to 50%. Then for the next 50 years, orangutans will have completely extinct. Won't we miss these ugly apes?

Krooze L-Roy — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:42:23 +0000

Punkey Breath

punkeys — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:59:24 +0000

Orangutans Are Shockingly Closer To Extinction

Kambiz Kamrani — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:09:40 +0000

Anthropology.net blogger German Dziebel sent me this link about the dim future of orangutans in Indonesia, Brunei, and Malaysia. Afarensis has also covered this news. The results of a new survey of orangutan populations have been published in the journal Oryx. I don't have access to the early advance view of the paper, but one of the authors of the paper, Serge Wich, discussed his results to the Associated Press,

"Orangutan population on Indonesia's Sumatra island dropped almost 14 percent since 2004.... On Borneo island, which is shared by Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia, have fallen by 10 percent...

The number of orangutans on Sumatra has fallen from 7,500 to 6,600 while the number on Borneo has fallen from 54,000 to around 49,600."

Despite the active conservation initiatives to help save these apes, the numbers are dropping at alarming rates. Because of that, the orangutan maybe the first extant great ape to go extinct. Much of the problem is due to the aggressive deforestation efforts by palm oil producers, who tear down forests to plant palm trees and make biofuel. This illustration to the right documents the deforrestation of Borneo in the past and projects the impact in the future.

I've covered this topic before, and summarized the history Primatology.net's blogging on orangutan conservation.

A Green Wedding

weddingplanningtips — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:57:36 +0000

For Earth Hour 2008, I was photographing a wedding in Balmoral Sydney. At 8pm the bride and groom, requested all lights to be turned off while dinning at the reception. With an added thoughtful gesture the MC announced that instead of purchasing bomboniere, the bride & groom are donating the money to the cause ‘Stop Global Warming’.

As a wedding photographer, I have noticed the subject of planning a green wedding is becoming a concern with many more couples.

Ali who is getting married at the end of the year and who has been reading both my blogs Greener Me & Wedding Planning Tips emailed me about her green wedding concerns:

“Oh I found something you might be interested in this. I can’t afford to hire china plates etc for our wedding (and can't be arsed washing them up after) and I didn’t want plastic ones as they are so bad for the environment... so I found a cool alternative - I love them!!! :)”

Check out 'Non Toxic Life'

I did check out this website Ali – thank you so much for emailing me the link. I am going to add them to my Australian website blog roll. My only concern was they used palm leaves to make the disposable plates. I knew from my friend Laura that you need to be careful on where palm leaves and palm oil comes from. We don’t want to destroy any more orangutan forest or habitat.

See Laura’s email in my post.

Laura emailed them on my behalf to ask the question of where the palm leaves comes from. Here is their response back:

“Hi Laura

The bioplates are made from the fallen palm fronds of the Betel Nut tree. In the village where they are made, the trees are everywhere naturally, they are not harvested at all. We are simply finding a use for the fronds that just create a mess as there are so many trees in the area.

The wooden cutlery is made from fast growing plantation timber, grown on a four year rotational cycle, especially for their manufacture.

Kind Regards

Melissa Kerr

www.nontoxiclife.com.au”

Thanks Laura for your help on this post. Please leave a comment about any more information you would like to add about saving the organgutan.

Here are some links to other blogs, posts or websites talking about green weddings for your reference:

http://www.greenweddingguide.com.au/web/pageid/1266

http://greatgreenwedding.com/blog/

http://www.polkadotbride.com/wp/index.php/category/eco-friendly-weddings/

http://www.yourweddingwardrobe.com.au/blog/?p=10

From the News Desk

Mike — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:55:42 +0000

Not much to say at the moment. I'm not at all tired, and I have to get up early and make a road trip tomorrow. So, to occupy my time, I've read some news stories online. Here's a taste of what's going on in the world:

Cholesterol worries in grade school? Apparently, a group of doctors with a bit of clout are recommending that young kids be given cholesterol meds to help prevent heart-related issues. (MSNBC via AP)

Taking a Peek in Bejing: NBC is going to use the Olympic Games to do marketing research. This one doesn't come as a surprise.

Wimbledon: I don't know why, but this excited me. I'm not really a big tennis fan, but every so often, something random grabs my eye.

There was also something somewhere stating that the orangutan population is decreasing at an alarming rate, that it could possibly be the first of the great apes to go extinct. I can't remember where, though. Google it and check it out for yourself.