Vandaag stampt Nederland boerenkool, de wereld vergadert, een gibbon slingert er tussendoor en Polio krijgt geen poot aan de grond.
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Cropped image from a book, showing an engraving of a gibbon leaping with its arms stretched in front of it, and its eyes facing towards you. It appears to have leapt from a tree, which is in the background, in front of a forest landscape. The caption underneath reads: 'Silvery Gibbon. - Hylobates Leuciscus'.
And because we had too many good gibbons to choose from, here's a bonus gibbon - in flight!
This engraving of a gibbon comes from 'The Illustrated Natural History' (1863) by J. G. Wood.
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Digitized image, 2-page spread from book: monochrome print, illustration of a gibbon of left page with Japanese text on both pages. The book is _Kenkadō-zatsuroku_ by Kimura Kenkadō (1736-1802), 1856; drawing by Mori Sosen (1747-1821), a famous Japanese monkey painter. This is the account of what may have been the first ever visit of a gibbon to Japan, translated as follows: "In the winter of the sixth year of the Bunko era (1809), a gibbon was shown in Osaka, in the Dōtombori ward. Although we have heard the word 'gibbon' since olden times, and seen pictures of him, we never had seen a live specimen, and therefore a large crowd assembled to see this gibbon. Generally he resembled a large macaque, and figure and fur are very similar. The face is black the fur grey with a touch of brown. The Hollander 'Captain' Hendrik Doeff who was then staying here said that this gibbon occurs on the island of Java where it is called 'wau-wau'. Truly an extraordinary sight!"
#GibbonDay 2/2: This entry in the 1856 book _Kenkadō-zatsuroku_ reports what may have been the 1st live gibbon exhibited in Japan, in 1809. Likely brought by Dutch ship; said to be from Java & called "wau-wau," a name for the Silvery Gibbon (Hylobates moloch).
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