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Photos taken throughout the first day of Agile On The Beach 2013, Thursday 5th September held at Falmouth University, Penryn. agileonthebeach.com/
The famous cabaret venue Lapin Agile dates back to around the year 1850 and was not originally called this, but in 1875 the artist Andre Gill painted a sign with a picture of a rabbit jumping out of a pan and the locals started to give the place the nickname of Le Lapin à Gill, which translates to Gill's Rabbit. As time went on the name gradually went to Cabaret Au Lapin Agile, which is the same full name as it has today, and during the 19th century was a popular haunt of famous artists and writers such as Pablo Picasso.
Every time I look at this shot and the dour struggle the man on the left is having climbing the hill it reminds me of just how steep the ascent to Butte Montmartre can be. I'm not sure I'd like to live locally.[LH538]
The agile gibbon (Hylobates agilis), also known as the black-handed gibbon, is an Old World primate in the gibbon family. It is found in Indonesia on the island of Sumatra, Malaysia, and southern Thailand. The species is listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List due to habitat destruction and the pet trade.
The agile gibbon has fur varying in color from black to red-brown. Its brow is white, and the male can be recognized by its white or light-grey cheeks. Additionally, the male is slightly larger than the female. The agile gibbon weighs from 4 to 6 kg (8.8 to 13.2 lb) with an average of 5 kg (11 lb), though in captivity it can reach 8 kg (18 lb). It has a head and body length of 44–63.5 cm (17.3–25.0 in). Like all gibbons it is tailless.
With its long arms they swing on branches, brachiating at a fast pace. Like all gibbons, it lives in serially monogamous pairs in a strictly enforced territory, which is defended with vigorous visual displays and songs. The diet of the agile gibbon is generally frugivorous but have also been observed eating leaves, flowers, and insects.
Females give birth to a single offspring after seven months' gestation. The young gibbon is weaned at barely 2 years of age. When fully mature, at about 8 years, it leaves its family group in order to look for a mate.
The agile gibbon is found on Sumatra southeast of Lake Toba and the Singkil River, in a small area on the Malay Peninsula, and south Thailand near the Malaysian border. It predominantly lives arboreally in rain forests and rarely comes to the ground.
This animal resides at Bristol Zoo in the city of Bristol in South West England. The zoo's stated mission is "Bristol Zoo Gardens maintains and defends biodiversity through breeding endangered species, conserving threatened species and habitats and promoting a wider understanding of the natural world".
Opened in 1836 by the Bristol, Clifton and West of England Zoological Society, Bristol Zoo is the world's oldest provincial zoo. It is a Victorian walled zoo located between Clifton Down and Clifton College, near Brunel's Clifton Suspension Bridge; it covers a small area by modern standards, but with a considerable number of species. In the 1960s the zoo came to national prominence by appearing in the UK television series, Animal Magic, hosted by the comic animal 'communicator', Johnny Morris. Morris would play keeper and voice all the animals there.
The zoo's official name is Bristol Zoological Gardens ('Bristol Zoo Gardens' for commercial purposes). This is not in recognition of the flower displays but recognises the first use of that title at the Regent's Park Zoological Gardens. Bristol, like its earlier London counterpart, includes several original buildings which have been praised for their architectural quirks, despite being unsuitable for the care of animals; the (former) Giraffe House joins the main entrance lodge and the south gates on Guthrie Roadas a Grade II listed building. The old Monkey Temple, resembling a southern-Asian temple, is now home to an exhibit called "Smarty plants", an interactive exhibit which shows how plants use and manipulate animals to survive.
The zoo also has breeding firsts, including the first black rhino born in Britain in 1958, the first squirrel monkey born in captivity in 1953 and the first chimpanzee born in Europe in 1934.
This arear is Gibbon Island where Samuel and Duana are Bristol Zoo’s king of the swingers! The pair of agile gibbons live on this Island and can be seen leaping expertly from rope to rope. You might also hear their distinctive call ringing out across the zoo.
You can tell them apart as Samuel has more white hair on his face than Duana so this must be Duana.
The other lake islands near the gibbons are home to squirrel monkeys, red ruffed lemurs, and saki monkeys. You can also find other primate species in the Monkey Jungle including lion-tailed macaques, debrazzas, ring-tailed lemurs and howler monkeys.
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