for surfcottage:)

some mountain gorillas of wich there is only 700 left

The Bornean species of orangutans is highly endangered, and the Sumatran species is critically endangered, according to the IUCN Red List of mammals, and both are listed on Appendix I of CITES. The Borneo   more...population is estimated at about 50,000 in the wild, while the Sumatran species is estimated at 7000-7500 individuals. The orangutan is an official state animal of Sabah in Malaysia. Orangutan habitat destruction due to logging, mining and forest fires has been increasing rapidly in the last decade. A major factor in that period of time has been the conversion of vast areas of tropical forest to oil palm plantations, for the production of palm oil. Some UN scientists believe that these plantations could lead to the extinction of the species by the year 2012. Much of this activity is illegal, occurring in national parks that are officially off limits to loggers, miners and plantation development. There is also a major problem with the poaching of baby orangutans for sale into the pet trade, the trappers usually kill the mother to steal the baby. Major conservation centres in Indonesia include those at Tanjung Puting in Central Kalimantan, Kutai in East Kalimantan, Gunung Palung in West Kalimantan, and Bukit Lawang in the Gunung Leuser National Park on the border of Aceh and North Sumatra. In Malaysia, conservation areas include Semenggok in Sarawak, and the Sepilok Orang-utan Rehabilitation Centre near Sandakan in Sabah.  less

Slideshow with photographs of gorillas.

wake up, mr Freeman...

I try to explain this as best as I can,we are all linked together by a spiritual force.

Jungle Rock
sorry its a loud at the end,
turn your speakers
down a bit.......sorry

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Let's see what's pissin Yusuke off now...

Monkey's rocking out like it's 1985.

These Apes get it on at the zoo in front of everybody...kids and all but its not nasty! Take a look see!

Here's a little movie for the classic Power Records read along. See more at www.mdp156.com/cavern/

Oh the horror! Save our children from the vicious pugs!

Here's a movie I made of the classic Power Records release

That dog sounds terrified. As well it should be.

Back in May a few of us went to the zoo and I took my new camera rig. Apologies for the dodgy camera work. I was trying to get used to the weight of the camera and the constant focusing needed with the   more...lenses. Also the fixed focal length of the lenses means I can't zoom so it wasn't always easy trying to capture the moment effectively. In this video you'll see me (briefly) along with Leigh (Dax79), Nicole (Nicole83), Nicole's friend from France Emmanuelle, Jack, Perry and Emma. I also apologise for the extremely cheesy bit towards the end which is for Jack.  less

I've been planning this one for a long time now...finally got Planet Earth on DVD. It took me longer to rip the entire DVD series than it took me to make this video. Mostly because I had the whole thing   more...storyboarded. It was just a matter of grabbing the clips.  less

Savage-Rumbaugh's work with bonobo apes, which can understand spoken language and learn tasks by watching, forces the audience to rethink how much of what a species can do is determined by biology --   more...and how much by cultural exposure.  less

Music Video

The Coast Guard gets up to some pretty extreme stuff out there in heavy waves.

Recorded live at The Map Room, Chalreston, SC.

The Fire Apes perform Killing Me From Inside (Only Friends) during POPAsheville. Recorded live at Stella Blue, Asheville, NC

I can't now find the video this was orgianlly a response to but I think it stands on its own.

Rio - The Fire Apes

Recorded live at The Music Farm on 2/24/07. College of Charleston Homecoming Concert w/Sugarcult.

Hide your face forever
Dream and search forever

Have you ever been for sale
When your isms get smart
Oh so selfish and mindless
With that comment in your eye

Do you think that you are hard
Really harder than   more...the other
Man you're acting cold
If you are not in charge

Don't split your mentality
Without thinking twice
Your voice has got no reason
Now is the time to face your lies

Open your eyes, open your mind
Proud like a god, don't pretend to be blind
Trapped in yourself, break out instead
Beat the machine that works in your head

Will you offer me some tricks
If I ever need them
Would you go into that room
If I call 'em

Do you think that you are better
Really better than the rest
You realize there's a problem
I know that you can give your best

Have you ever had a dream?
Or is life just a trip?
A trip without chances
A chance to grow up quick

Open your eyes, open your mind
Proud like a god, don't pretend to be blind
Trapped in yourself, break out instead
Beat the machine that works in your head

Hide your face forever
Dream and search forever
Night and night you feel nothing
There's no way outside of my land

Open your eyes, open your mind
Proud like a god, don't pretend to be blind
Trapped in yourself, break out instead
Beat the machine that works in your head

Open your eyes, open your mind
Proud like a god, don't pretend to be blind
Trapped in yourself, break out instead
Beat the machine that works in your head  less