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Re: taking a fall
>>>Same deal with gibbons, I should think. Just think if one missed a branch .
>>>. . But they do it anyway.<<<
I can confirm that most brachiating primates species occasionally have
individuals fall to their deaths. Even lower population density primates like
orangatans fall to their deaths once in a while. Life IS dangerous, but they
do it anyway.
Scott Hartman
Zoology & Physiology
University of Wyoming
Laramie, WY 82070
(307) 742-3799