Gibbons roaming around Phnom Penh

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I keep reading the title as “goblins”.
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IraHayes wrote: ↑Tue Feb 26, 2019 3:11 pm I keep reading the title as “goblins”.

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frank lee bent wrote: ↑Tue Feb 26, 2019 10:33 am no tail and long arms...
Sounds like SirQualityYouFeel. Whatever happened to him?
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StroppyChops wrote: ↑Tue Feb 26, 2019 6:17 pm
frank lee bent wrote: ↑Tue Feb 26, 2019 10:33 am no tail and long arms...
Sounds like SirQualityYouFeel. Whatever happened to him?
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Is KiR on the job here? Posts disappearing. Strange.
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StroppyChops wrote: ↑Tue Feb 26, 2019 6:17 pm
frank lee bent wrote: ↑Tue Feb 26, 2019 10:33 am no tail and long arms...
Sounds like SirQualityYouFeel. Whatever happened to him?
Abducted by goblins?
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Almost exactly year after this thread and I just had a surprising encounter with a Gibbons and her baby at Soviet Khmer friendship hospital.
I guess they are afraid of the coronavirus too :lol:

All joking aside I was by the moto parking area underneath a tin roof. About 4 meters away I noticed what thought was a cat silently falling out of a tree at first. But low and behold, it was a gibbons that came down to investigate a fresh dragon fruit peel. There was around 10 of us and she really had no fear. I have great pictures and a hilarious video of her baby (older and very independent) running away and playing and its mother chasing after it. I could almost here mama cursing her baby as she chased after it.
Still here, in country...
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Ravensnest wrote:I have great pictures and a hilarious video of her baby...
Ever heard the saying “ pictures or it didn’t happen?”


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she was quite pretty and looked older
she knew only what had been told her
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Ravensnest wrote: ↑Sun Feb 02, 2020 1:04 pm Almost exactly year after this thread and I just had a surprising encounter with a Gibbons and her baby at Soviet Khmer friendship hospital.
They belong to a well-known tycoon who has a compound on the block. They are allowed to wander about the neighborhood. You can sometimes see peacocks and hornbills roaming about too.
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John Bingham wrote: ↑Sun Feb 02, 2020 6:03 pm
Ravensnest wrote: ↑Sun Feb 02, 2020 1:04 pm Almost exactly year after this thread and I just had a surprising encounter with a Gibbons and her baby at Soviet Khmer friendship hospital.
They belong to a well-known tycoon who has a compound on the block. They are allowed to wander about the neighborhood. You can sometimes see peacocks and hornbills roaming about too.
I have seen the peacocks once too. My wife thought that she came from a big compound. The locals there said they come at 10 or 11 pm at night which is a hard pill to swallow since I thought they were diurnal.
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