John Bingham wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 12:38 am

Ravensnest wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 10:51 am
I don't understand how the owner lets them roam loose like that. I'd worry about them too. they use the power lines as a highway and in my mind, they must be playing Russian roulette unknowingly. surely those wires must claim one at some point.

Most of those lines are just telecom/ cable TV/ ISP connections or just redundant. The power lines are usually double insulated unless you are too close to a transformer.

that makes sense since the way they are heavily stacked on top of each other a fire doesn't break out.

My buddy moved to a new apartment just a few days ago. He's on the corner of 136 and Sisowath Quay. Yesterday we found out he will be visited frequently by a troop of macaques because of a water source upon his neighbor's roof.
one younger male was barring his teeth at my friend in a different video.

LOL
A gang of macaques is a very different kettle of fish to a pair of gibbons.
Getting friendly with these guys is about as smart as trying to cosy up to the local Nigerians.

Why are there roving gibbons and hornbills in Phnom Penh?
Today, you'd be lucky to spot a gibbon in the Cambodian jungle, but in the capital, a trip to Toul Tumpoung should do the trick. These primates, along with a flock of hornbills, are often seen walking the power lines of this Phnom Penh suburb, for a rather peculiar reason
Andrew Haffner
June 30, 2020

Travellers in Cambodia may spend hundreds of dollars to venture deep into its forests for just a brief glimpse of a gibbon flying hand-over-hand through the canopy.

These would-be primatologists don’t need to go on safari to see the endangered apes though, at least not in the Toul Tompoung area of the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh. That’s because a pair of gibbons frequents the neighbourhoods around busy Mao Tse Toung Road, moving above the streets of the urban jungle along a network of power lines, balconies and the odd tree.

The pair, one black in color, the other a mottled grey, are pileated gibbons. Their natural habitat is in the thick forests of the country’s rural hinterlands, such as in the northern plains of Preah Vihear and in the Cardamom Mountains in the nation’s south, where their numbers have dwindled due to poaching and habitat loss. Conservationists estimate there are 48,000 of these specific gibbons left in the wilds of Southeast Asia, which are home to roughly 20 different species of the acrobatic, long-armed ape.

But these two urban gibbons live in the city under circumstances both unusual and all too common.

“These two belong to an untouchable oknha [a civilian title reserved for large donors to the government] and are semi-pets, so reporting them will do nothing,” a local conservation worker told to the Globe under the condition of anonymity.

Neighbours of Hun To, a powerful nephew of Prime Minister HE, say the gibbons are a common sight gamboling around his high-fenced compound in this Phnom Penh-suburb. The home itself, which features a compact urban golf course, is hidden behind walls backed up by tall green nets crawling with iguanas and ostensibly designed to contain the creatures of the okhna’s rumoured personal menagerie.
https://southeastasiaglobe.com/hornbill ... hnom-penh/