Dixon and Singwah are two of the white-cheeked gibbons I worked with at the zoo! Singwah is the female, which is white, and Dixon is the male, the black one. This is how they would always sit together! Singwah always would sit in a little ball with her arms crossed, and Dixon would sit next to her with his arms around her!
When I first started at the zoo, I was warned to watch out for Dixon, because he was known for trying to grab people! He was in a hold inside and wasn't allowed outside on the islands because he had escaped shortly before I had started working there! I wish I could have been there for that! So since he wasn't allowed outside, he was really moody...
So on my second day, I was standing in the hold area, and I was suddenly pinched! Dixon had swung over so fast, stuck his arm out of the cage and grabbed my arm and then swung away again! haha!
Sometime after that, they were moved to a bigger hold and Dixon was allowed outside again, so after that he seemed a lot better!
Dixon and Singwah each had their specific song, and they would always sing together! I miss hearing them, but I got video of it, so I could listen to it whenever I wanted. In the background of this video, Kelly, one of the zookeepers i worked with, is training Cory(red ruff lemur) and the radio is also playing... there's not some woman in there singing.
Also, a lot of the time when Singwah would sing, she would jump and swing around and grab that rope on the shelf thing so it would bang and make a lot of noise! She does it once in this video...
And each day, there would be a new enrichment item-- wood blocks, plastic ducks, hay, balls...
In this video, they were given hay- To make it fun for them, we stuck cheerios in all in the hay so they could dig around in it!
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Haha! Are ya'll sure that's singing? Haha- I guess it is for gibbons. I was impressed by the last 2 notes, though, which were a very good half-step apart. I felt the same way when I stopped school. Hey! I can learn what I want to!- and I actually have.
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