Thank you so much for the effort you put in to finding a giffable video of a white-cheeked gibbon. I’m totally fine with just a female (and her rare baby!) because I have personal reasons for requesting this somewhat obscure and critically endangered primate. My local zoo has an indoor southeast Asian rainforest exhibit, which I visit each time I go in the wintertime. There live a mated pair of northern white-cheeked gibbons, female Chi and male Mil. Going on almost two years ago I noticed if I stayed at the chevrotain window long enough, Chi would come brachiating out of the trees to look at me, wanting to have an audience. I started showing her the contents of my pockets, and she seemed interested enough in the orange chapstick (some animals go berserk at the color orange due to colorblindness). But I spoke to one of her keepers who said she loved shiny things, especially real diamonds (she apparently once picked out a real Gucci diamond bracelet out of a crowd of people, staring at it and putting her hand on the glass). So I started bringing her rhinestones. But when I showed her clip on earrings she was utterly entranced, trying to figure out the mechanism of how the earring could stay on. Unfortunately, due to the pandemic and the summer I haven’t been able to see Chi in many months; she usually seems very interested to see me that I like to think she remembers me, and is pleased at my makeshift enrichment. Her mate Mil is very shy and doesn’t come to the window (according to the keepers he has diabetes, which isn’t that uncommon for zoo gibbons since Vinh also has it) but the last time I was there I was able to spot him through the trees. Apparently in the mornings he and Chi sing to mark their territory, as mated white cheeked gibbon pairs do (the bonding took months because their personalities are so different). So that’s my personal, silly story about my relationship with a local white cheeked gibbon, and why I requested a gifset from you. Here she is checking out the rhinestones (apologies for bad cameraphone quality):
Thank you once again for searching so long for such an excellent video!
