Maybe an Orang Utan

Childhood dangers in India…
Jessica: We had to be careful not to get sick, Delhi belly or dysentery.
Rowan: Animals?
Jessica: Oh yes. Cobras. There was one on the corner where we caught the bus.
Rowan: Every day?
Jessica: Sometimes. It was a snake charmer’s. And one day there was a monkey up the tree in our garden.
Rowan: Wild?
Jessica: It had escaped from the zoo next door. I was going out the door and it was up the tree looking at me. I backed inside. The servants took care of it. 
Rowan: They caught it?
Jessica: They called the zoo people and they came.
Rowan: What kind of monkey?
Jessica: Maybe a specialized monkey. It was orange. Anyway, I missed the school bus so Mom wrote a note saying it was because of the monkey.
Rowan: A feasible reason. Sounds like an orang utan. An ape, not a monkey.

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Voice-over
Orang utans are apes, and tailless, unlike monkeys. Orange-brown, living in densely foliaged trees, so maybe not needing darkly pigmented skin like gorillas for UV protection.

Monkey Rabbits

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.

Found in a Kichijoji shop recently.

WHITE RABBIT WHITE RABBIT WHITE RABBIT

Taking a little licence with the original word-play.

見うざる, 聞かうざる, 言わうざる.

The idea is usually associated with monkeys, but rabbits can evidently be equally moralistic.

 

Off we jog into a new June.

Good luck at the turn of the moon.

Tarsier

Evening nature program.

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TV presenter:  Megane zaru.

Foreign guest: In English?

TV presenter: Tarsier. 12 centimeter monkey. Spectacle monkey, if you will.

Foreign guest: Big eyes.

TV presenter: Cranium is mostly eye socket. They leap from tree to tree and as they land they close their eyes.

Foreign guest: Understandable. Close their eyes to protect them as they sink their teeth into their prey.

TV presenter: True. But you know, their eyes are fixed in a straight-ahead direction. Can’t swivel their eyeballs like humans. Like owls.

Foreign guest: Why not?

TV presenter: And another thing. They can leap 3 meters from tree to tree.

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Voice-over

Annoying thing about presenters, who present on a different topic every night, is that they give you a surprising fact and since they can’t say why, they dart on to the next feature. It’s the nature of TV.

Tarsiers' eyes are enormous and unique, aside from their non-swivelling characteristic; some neuroscientists believe that "they arose from an early, independent primate line of evolution" (WikiP). Could be a connection there.

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