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the intimate ape: Inside an orangutan sanctuary in Borneo: Nyaru Menteng and what makes it good
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REFLECTIONS ON PEOPLE, APES AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN. Friday, June 1, 2012. Inside an orangutan sanctuary in Borneo: Nyaru Menteng and what makes it good. Sido and Happy enjoy each other's company at Nyaru Menteng, Kalimantan, Borneo. Maybe I'm too idealistic, but I like to look for sanctuaries in this troubled world, places that are safe and apart from the influence of the world and that let you heal and grow. The current manager here, a 37-year-old Javanese man named Anton Nurcahyo, says that I am sti...
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the intimate ape: A daughter's dark tale of abuse at the zoo chimp show: how kids and apes suffer together
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REFLECTIONS ON PEOPLE, APES AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN. Saturday, February 26, 2011. A daughter's dark tale of abuse at the zoo chimp show: how kids and apes suffer together. Performing for humans, Detroit zoo, 1950s. It’s never a good time to beat a chimpanzee, even if it happened years ago and you can try to make some weak excuse for it, that people didn’t know better then, that those were the old days when we were only partly human. But something was wrong. Dawn hinted there was a darker side that ...
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the intimate ape: When tiger moms go ape: why so much strife about the mystery of raising the kids?
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REFLECTIONS ON PEOPLE, APES AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN. Saturday, March 26, 2011. When tiger moms go ape: why so much strife about the mystery of raising the kids? Photo by Shawn Thompson. The controversy about tiger moms reminds me of what happens when human beings take the role of being a parent to an ape. There can be a lot of tension and strife. A tiger mom like Amy Chua in her book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. Some say the tiger mom produces angry, frustrated, anxious children. The issue with chi...
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the intimate ape: A forest Willie Smits designed to save orangutans
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REFLECTIONS ON PEOPLE, APES AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN. A forest Willie Smits designed to save orangutans. The new miracle forest at Samboja Lestari, Borneo, could save orangutans. Photo by Shawn Thompson. Halfway around the world. The 53-year-old Smits is no idle dreamer,. Sugar palm at Samboja Lestari, Borneo. Photo by Shawn Thompson. Willie Smits in Borneo . Photo by Shawn Thompson. It is a task of incredible complexity. He says that unless they build a forest that supports the local economy, the onsla...
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the intimate ape: Why we are failing orangutans
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REFLECTIONS ON PEOPLE, APES AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN. Why we are failing orangutans. Note: This article was originally published online at mongabay. The book spends most of the time talking about the nature of orangutans and the relationships between orangutans and people. But the ultimate underlying message is there about the source of the peril to orangutans and the solution. Thompson says that the problem of saving orangutans has to do with communications and human nature. Photo by Shawn Thompson.
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the intimate ape: orangutan musing
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REFLECTIONS ON PEOPLE, APES AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN. Monday, August 20, 2012. A photo by IntimateApe. I like to capture orangutans in a thoughtful pose to show that side of them. The black and white photo seems to highlight that contemplative aspect. This photo was taken at Nyaru Menteng. Prof Shawn Thompson aka the intimate ape. Monday, August 20, 2012. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). There was an error in this gadget. Windows Live Messenger Facebook. CURIOUS ABOUT THIS BLOG? Psychology Today maga...
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the intimate ape: A meditation on apes, corporate greed, feelings of extinction, and the loss of literacy #OccupyBarnesAndNoble
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REFLECTIONS ON PEOPLE, APES AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN. Sunday, December 18, 2011. A meditation on apes, corporate greed, feelings of extinction, and the loss of literacy #OccupyBarnesAndNoble. It's terrible to contemplate the death of a species like the orangutan. I've been thinking of various ways to try to comprehend this unimaginable event. I imagine that extinction is a big death similar in some ways to the small death of the individual. Now the space in the fifth largest Barnes and Noble store in th...
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the intimate ape: Looking for the invisible ape
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REFLECTIONS ON PEOPLE, APES AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN. Looking for the invisible ape. I wrote the book The Intimate Ape: Orangutans and the Secret Life of a Vanishing Species. Because I thought the orangutan is also the invisible ape. The "secret life" is part of that invisibility. The more I thought about it, the more it seemed to me that there is a huge cultural blind spot about this thinking, sentient being who is part of our evolutionary family tree. Despite the cover, about Galdikas. So, over ten ye...
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the intimate ape: Musical apes: Should we be surprised that they can get the beat?
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REFLECTIONS ON PEOPLE, APES AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN. Thursday, February 10, 2011. Musical apes: Should we be surprised that they can get the beat? Chimpanzees at the Taipei zoo Photo by Shawn Thompson. We take our appreciation of the arts very seriously and may not want to share it with the apes, but maybe it is time to admit that we are not the only species that can swing to a beat. Hmura told me that he never gets. As a musician, but he didn't. The night before. He was nervous how a crowd that ha...
