#trimates

[ladyorlandodream]

I got emotional seeing this picture

The Trimates: Fossey, Goodall, Galdikas

[ape-apocalypse]

can you reccomend some of the documentaries you watched about apes?

Funny enough, I've been planning on making a list of documentaries so thanks for the push! I’ve watched a bunch to hype up for Kingdom and I’ll keep watching as we wait for POTA news. These are what I've been able to find with my various subscription services and internet access in the USA so their availability may vary for you. Also a warning that, due to these being non-fiction documentaries there is very real footage of animal injuries and death (from both humans and natural circumstances).

Monkey Business (Amazon Prime) - A long running show (9 seasons) about a primate rescue center in the UK. I really loved this one because you got to follow apes of the course of years. I even cried when one ape who had been there from the first season passed away in the final season. The show mostly focuses on chimps and orangutans but also features lemurs, woolly monkeys, gibbons and other species. The center focuses on giving the animals in their care the most natural life they can in captivity, and also assists in breeding programs for several endangered species. Jane Goodall even comes out in one episode to present them with an award for excellent enclosure construction. The theme song is very loud and distinctive, the point that my roommate asked how long this series was because she could hear the theme song coming from my room for weeks as I went through all 9 seasons. Highly recommend this one because the personalities of the apes really stand out when you spend literal years with them; it's worth the time commitment, I loved it.

(Also in making sure I had all the details about this show right, I learned there was a follow up show called Monkey Life that featured Andy Serkis himself narrating the first season and they seem to all be available on YouTube for free so I have a new multi-season show to watch now, thank you!!!)

Orangutan Jungle School (YouTube) - Rescue group dedicated to teaching young orangutans how to survive in the wild so they can be released when they're older. Only the first two episodes of this show are available on YouTube for free but I also devoured any clips I could find. I found this show particularly hilarious because the baby orangs are adorable. They cry when they don't get their cups of milk fast enough or when they can't figure out how to crack into a coconut. I always see adult orangutans as slow moving, so the activity and demanding personalities of the babies delighted me. If nothing else, watch these two clips because I have watched the clips of the babies screaming and the humans overreacting to fake snakes on repeat for ages.

Chimp Empire (Netflix) - Two chimpanzee groups in Uganda's Ngogo forest face off over territory and food, while each group faces their own struggles from within. This one is about wild chimps and it is fascinating to see their natural ways outside of rescue centers. The cinematography is gorgeous; I'd love to know how they got all these shots without disturbing the chimps. It's only 4 episodes; I wish it was longer but it packs a lot into its short run time.

Meet The Chimps (Disney+) - A one season show focusing on chimps living in a rescue center in Louisiana. A single season show so you don't get a lot of time with the chimps but it's got a much smaller number of chimps to get to know than Monkey Business. Also the troops are housed near each other so it's interested to see the dominance displays, even through a fence. My favorite part was near the end with the mystery of who was the father of an accidental baby. I guessed wrong!

Kingdom Of The Apes: Battle Lines (Disney+) - Two separate ape groups, one of chimps and the other of gorillas, sort out fights for dominance and leadership of the troop in their own ways. Personally I didn't like this one. Jumping back and forth between gorillas and chimps in a documentary less than an hour didn't leave me very invested, but I thought I'd add it if anyone was interested.

I'll throw in a couple podcasts too, should be free on your preferred podcast app:

Ologies, one episode on primatology and a separate episode on gorillaology

National Park After Dark, a two-part episode on the life, work, and murder of Dian Fossey, a primatologist who worked with gorillas and wrote the book 'Gorillas In the Mist'

The Wild With Chris Morgan, an episode on orangutans called People Of The Forest

There are a lot more documentaries I want to watch, especially several for free on YouTube. I hope this list is of interest to you and I welcome recommendations from anyone else.

[star2006mcart]

Lore time part 1

Character's names + age

Morgan 23 - peace negotiator

Khaidan 10 - child

Jayden 22 - mercenary

Kyle 21 - mercenary

During the creation of the charter, Morgan was a peacekeeper for the other trans goves.

Altara refused to sign the charter because it removed weapons besides the survival knife from the fabricator's blueprints. They then proceeded to threaten Altara to sign it or they would get blamed for the massacre on Obraxis' prime which was the truth.

During the making of the Aurora, she was a person of interest, so she hired two of her friends who were mercenaries to keep her and her younger brother safe during the trip (she did not know she was supposed to be assassinated over the threats during the signing of the charter). While seeing the surface of 4546b her brother had a vision before he woke up and hid in a life pod. (he hid in a life pod 25; nothing was wrong with the life pod) when his sister found him, the quarantine gun thingy shot the Aurora.

A crash-landed on the planet, and the life pod had four people. Morgan got a head injury and was out for a few hours. Jaden had brought food for him and the others while she was out. While she was being watched by Kyle, once she woke up, her brother hugged her. They found the other pods and saw no one in them or that they had exploded.

When the Aurora core detonated, Khaidan stayed in their life pod so he would be safe. They had fixed the cire and had a run-in with a reaper leviathan. On the way back, they found all of the sea moth fragments. Morgan picked up a stalker egg to adopt as a pet when it hatches. Due to being in the mushroom forest, they had asses to all of the Cyclops fragments and built it. They decided to venture to the quarantine platform because of the sunbeam call (the same thing that happens in Cannon happens here).

[rairii]

Homesick for Bolivia again. La Paz, I wish to be there.

I wish to stand on the edge from Ciudad Satelite and look over the sprawling city at dusk, the lights coming on and glowing like stars, catching glimpses from Illimani's peak. I wish to see the familiar route down from El Alto to my aunt's apartment again. I even wish the burn of little air as I go up the flights of stairs to said apartment slowly so I don't get altitude sickness.

I want to be walking the streets at noon and stop to buy some salteñas potosinas. I want to stop by the family's favorite fricasé restaurant to buy enough for the family, and then take the minibus back up the slope. I want to drink trimate and spend time with my cousins - see their more recent art, discuss artists, share videos. I want to walk down a street and see the retama blooming.

Te extraño, La Paz y familia.

(Image from National Geographic Kids UK)

[efvicioso]

Tal día como hoy, en 1903, nace Louis Leakey que, junto a Mary Leakey, fue responsable de relevantes hallazgos en relación con nuestro linaje como especie.

https://buff.ly/3LUb8f9:

[hadeschan]

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[nix-that-rad-lass]

Some Dian Fossey memes for your viewing pleasure

Today is a great day to pledge our allegiance to one of the most badass women in biology

Keep her legacy alive!

(If you would like to donate to the conservation and research of mountain gorillas while also helping surrounding African villages have access to clean water, schools, jobs, and more, check out the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund)

[triumph-of-adaptation]

Did y’all see the Dr Jane Goodall Barbie? I’m dying, can you imagine if you had this when you were a kid!?

[therobishow]

I think I'm done with podcasts made by men

I love listening to podcasts while I work. Especially ones related to history, film, and literature.

And damn near every time I try listening to ones that are made by men, I end up hitting a point where I have to stop listening and switch to something else. There's always a point where they say something that is so ignorant, blatantly sexist, etc., that I just can't take it.

Often times it's the host buying into a very male-centered lens of interpreting whatever it is they're discussing. And, you know, that's kind of expected. They're men. They're viewing things as men. I get that and I'm usually willing to just roll my eyes and move on. But then it keeps happening, or gets much worse than what can be excused by simple ignorance. And then I can't just roll my eyes anymore. I just want to start yelling. And that's not a good energy to have while I'm trying to do my job. So I switch over to something else.

A good example of this happened today. I was listening to a podcast called History by Hollywood. I found it because I'm a huge fan of History Buffs on Youtube. Comparing historical fiction to the actual history is fascinating to me. I love learning about the real event and how it's translated into fiction. But...it got bad. Real fucking bad.

Now, I can't place all the blame on the creators of HbH. They had guests who do a podcast that I think is called Green Screen, which discusses films through an environmental lens. And I definitely will not be listening to that podcast after hearing them today.

The episode was about Gorillas in the Mist, which is biopic about Dr. Dian Fossey. If you don't know who Dian Fossey is, look her up. She was one of the group known as the Trimates, sometimes called Leakey's Angels. The group consisted of three women who were expert primatologists: Birute Galdikas, who studied orangutans; Jane Goodall, possibly the most well known of the three, who studied chimpanzees; and Fossey herself, who studied gorillas. I would love to write hundreds of pages about how awesome and unbelievably badass these women are/were. Seriously, learn about these women if you haven't already. They are amazing.

Anyway, the episode was about Dr. Fossey. My first issue is that, despite her PhD, they never once referred to her with her proper title. This is upsettingly common with women who have earned doctorates. Men never want to call them Doctor. It frustrates me to no end. But that's not nearly the worst of it. They went on to discuss how she became pregnant twice during her time in Rwanda. She chose to abort both pregnancies because she did not want pregnancy or motherhood to interfere with her work with the gorillas. One of the GS guys commented on this saying "I suppose her reasons could be considered valid." Um, excuse me? First of all, why do you think that you get to decide whether or not she had valid reasons? You don't. Second, of course her reasons are valid. Whatever a woman's reasons are for having an abortion are valid. She's the only one who gets to make that decision. So fuck right off with that. Sorry for getting a bit heated here, but that really pissed me off. There was no need for a comment like that. Especially since it makes it sound like he doesn't actually think her reasons are valid, but is scared of catching heat so tried to sugarcoat it.

Moving on, TW: rape, they also got into the fact that Dr. Fossey stated that she was repeatedly raped by soldiers in 1966 over the course of two weeks. People freaking love to claim that this is "disputed" or "exaggerated" and some go as far as to claim that it was an outright lie. Why? Because she originally claimed that she was treated well and then escorted to the border. Later on, she admitted that she was actually beaten and raped. I'm not going to delve too far into this because a) this post is already way longer than I intended, and b) I will get SO MAD. For the sake of brevity, I'm just going to say that I believe that she was raped, and that she initially lied because she was not ready for this information to become public. The hosts however...well, they'd like to claim that they didn't come down on either side of this "debate" and simply presented facts. But they totally don't think she was raped. They went on and on about all the reasons that she would have lied about being raped, such as political clout, publicity, propaganda, and other dumb reasons. But just couldn't seem to think of any reason that she would have lied about not being raped. Gotta love how men are always able to come up with fifty million reasons why women would make false accusations. It's absolutely not in any way revealing how they think of women.

They also got into the admittedly shitty things that Dr. Fossey did during her time in Rwanda. She wasn't perfect, and she did do some rather bad things. Her approach to conservation work was very much steeped in a colonialist mindset. I'm not about to deny that. And they did do a good job of explaining some of the more overlooked facts of poaching--most African poachers aren't cartoon villains who want to destroy nature. Many are farmers who are killing animals that threaten their crops and/or livestock. And then they get offered lots of money to do it. It's not a simple issue, and doesn't have a simple solution. I don't have a problem with them addressing this, and I'm glad that they did. However, and this is a pretty big HOWEVER, they also didn't discuss any of the great things she did. She saved a huge number of gorillas. She helped improve the Rwandan economy. She fought against multiple colonialist organizations trying to exploit Rwanda and it's wildlife. She helped to revolutionize the field of primatology. There's so much that we know now that we only know because of her. They also decided that the fact that she's a heavily revered and respected figure in Rwanda was worth a few sentences and that was it.

They referred to her as cold and unfeeling multiple times, largely due to her relationship with Bob Campbell, who was married when they met. Apparently the fact that she didn't stick with him for her whole life means that she's cold and uncaring. Ugh. I just fucking can't with this.

And the cherry on top, they made jokes about her murder. Yep. Dr. Fossey was horribly and brutally murdered with a machete in December of 1985. And they apparently think that's funny. Now, I know that some of the people who were close to Dr. Fossey have also made jokes regarding her death. However, there are several Grand Canyon-sized differences between someone using humor to cope with the death of someone they loved, and some assholes with a podcast making jokes about the brutal murder of a woman they never met. They also said that it doesn't matter who killed her or if they're ever caught. Which...no? It very much matters who snuck into this woman's home in the middle of the night and used a machete to brutally murder her. It very much matters if this person is caught. I can't even imagine trying to say that it doesn't matter if an actual murderer is ever caught.

All of this goes into a huge problem when it comes to studying history, especially the history of science. Women are always scrutinized more heavily, always criticized with more vitriol, and always have their enormous accomplishments either left out entirely or pushed to side. I almost never see male scientists given this treatment. Edison comes close, but he always gets quite a bit of "Yeah, he was awful, but let's not forget all the awesome things he did!" Women however get "Yeah, she did a few cool things for science, but let's not forget that she had an abortion!"

I just can't handle this shit anymore. If you managed to get all the way to the end of this wall of text (yay) please recommend me some good history/literature podcasts created by women. I will love you so much.

[ostrich-possum]

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[bywandandsword]

My nibling’s favorite movie is Moana. She can’t speak more than a handful of words yet but, oh my god does she try when the songs come on

Here favorite character is Hei Hei. Everytime he’s on screen she jumps up all excited, and she has a Hei Hei doll that she loves so so so much

[reyamifurnituremarketing]

Stand to sit Workstations and Trimat Executive Desk are trendy and popular in today's workplaces. There are numerous explanations for this. First and foremost, height-adjustable desks make the workplace more ergonomic and health-promoting, such as switching jobs, alternating between standing and sitting work, active break periods, appropriate work postures, and so on.

[efvicioso]

Tal día como hoy, en 1913, nace Mary Leakey, antropóloga y divulgadora británica.

https://buff.ly/3Uuv91B:

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Holden Kingswood Commonwealth Games Car, 1973. When the 10th Commonwealth Games were held in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1974 General Motors New Zealand created 169 identical HQ KIngswoods with 4.2 litre V8 engines, Trimatic auto gearboxes, sports wheels, all finished in white with red and blue stripes. The cars were used as courtesy vehicles for teams during the games then sold on by Holden dealers throughout New Zealand after the games ended

[tastytoastz]

While browsing your Tumblr I came across a question about marriage on Cybertron and read it.

Bumblebee is a piece of heaven, asking Blitzwing's trimates for permission to be Conjux even though they're no longer here.

The triple changer is lucky to have a boyfriend like the minibot after everything that happened.

And I also read that Bee would do it in human form, good luck finding the outfits and decorations for the wedding.

Bumblebee *turning up at the wedding dress store*: Do you possibly have any dresses that would fit my 30 feet tall boyfriend?