Aquatic Ape 1998 documentary series

[Oldsarge]

Anyone know where you can buy a DVD of that documentary? I'd sure like a copy . . .

[wet]

Originally Posted by Oldsarge

Anyone know where you can buy a DVD of that documentary? I'd sure like a copy . . .

Oldsarge,

I asked Elaine, her response was that it is not available on DVD to her knowledge.

Yahoo! Groups

I too would like a DVD of the documentary.

DDeden

[Oldsarge]

Damn! Oh well, thanx for looking.

[wet]

Originally Posted by Apnea_Addict

Thanks for those links !

I also found a video of the amazing swimming monkeys underwater:

YouTube - Monkeys Swimming Underwater

DD: Looks like the video was pulled by BBC

Here's an edited version music video:

YouTube - Monkey's Swimming Underwater.

Also a beach swimming tame macaque

YouTube - Lulu swimming monkey

and a surface swimming sloth (not a primate so not related to monkeys or apes)

YouTube - Swimming Sloth

Scientists find monkeys who know how to fish - Yahoo! News

Apparently these same macaque monkeys will occasionally catch fish with their hands, as well. I thought they only ate mud crabs and plucked aquatic vegetation.

Capuchin monkeys of South America will use oyster shells to open fresh oysters in tidal mangroves, prying them off tree trunks and rocks to get the meat.

Chacma babboons living on coasts will wade out into marine shallows to gather shark eggs.

AFAIK, all monkeys can swim, but only Japanese macaques, long tailed crab-eating macaques (see above) and big-nosed proboscis monkeys will swim under water to gather food or escape predators (cats) or cross rivers; all other monkeys only surface-swim using doggie paddle AFAIK. Monkeys and apes will usually wade vertically (bipedally) when water is above the ankles, gorillas have been seen using depth-finder walking sticks in deeper water at the Ndoki swamp in Africa.

Apes generally avoid water deeper than hip height, especially moving river water.

[trux]

Amazing videos, David! Did you alreday get the book "The Thinkers Of The Jungle" about the swimming and spearing orangutans, discussed in another thread (http://forums.deeperblue.net/beach-b...-member-d.html)? There might be some clues for the evolution and the aquatic ape theory in it too.

[wet]

Originally Posted by trux

Amazing videos, David! Did you alreday get the book "The Thinkers Of The Jungle" about the swimming and spearing orangutans, discussed in another thread (http://forums.deeperblue.net/beach-b...-member-d.html)? There might be some clues for the evolution and the aquatic ape theory in it too.

Ivo, maybe someday I will.
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This is irrelevant, but my current library (sitting on/at my desk) contains:

Books:
Saving the Oceans, Joseph MacInnes
The science and practice of Pharmacy vol 1 & 2, Remington 2000
Survival into the 21st century: a Planet Healers manual diet-yoga-new age
The greening of Mars (Sci Fi Mars colonization)
Soft Tech (Whole Earth appropriate technology/green)
10th annual North Coast Open Studios guide (Nor. Calif. art)
National Geographic May 1988: Wool, Persian Gulf, Fleas, Kerala

Stuff:
Humboldt State Univ. Aquatic Center Activities Guide
SBDC Small Biz Dev Ctr pamphlet
Art lover pamphlet (personalized license plates)
Calendar June 2008 from Eureka Reporter
the Ink People Ctr for the Arts pamphlet
a LOVE pencil sharpener, automatic electric pencil sharpener
2 speakers & monitor (w requisite tree frog sticker), wood base
my coffee, twice reheated, thrice refilled
mouse and mouse pad
a copper coated triple metal hanging basket, resembles a crab pot or fish trap
a little flopping moth
sunshine
me

how bout you?

[trux]

Originally Posted by wet

... how bout you?

Mostly unpaid bills.

[wet]

Originally Posted by trux

Mostly unpaid bills.

lucky guy, you are!