August 10, 2013

• To me this video shows an ape doing a turtle stroke, not a frog-like breaststroke at all, for what it's worth... Turtles alternately stroke their arms and coincidentally their legs. coordinated out of sync but synergistic in their own way I'd say, like the Aussie crawl but not breaking the surface... The true breaststroke is instead symmetrical. You could be disqualified in a meet if you did the ape/turtle stroke instead. <:(!)
• The staff at a Christchurch zoo were surprised that gibbons can swim at all. (To which we all say, duh.)