This morning on my way to work I saw a monkey out the window of the company shuttle. It was climbing along a railing on the hillside over the highway. My first thought: “A gibbon!” A few minutes later I realized odds are it was not the primate I vowed never to forget after not remembering the first time what this breed was called the first time I watched the monkeys video when I was four. I recalled nothing about the species but its name and its yellow-brown coat and long arms. Actually, now I think I might be mixing real gibbons up with the monkey I forgot, which might have been the one with a large fleshy nose. Regardless, I just read on Wikipedia that gibbons (which according to Google Images look like the monkey I saw) are found in southern China, so I will consider this unvoiced childhood dream fulfilled.
Monkey!
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