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  • From: Gregory Rehbein <suedehead73 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: monkeywire AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [monkeywire] Couple marry in gibbon wedding
  • Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 06:03:22 -0800 (PST)

Couple marry in gibbon wedding

Two animal conservationists have got married in a gibbon-style wedding ceremony in Thailand.

Briton Sam Lake met Israeli Norka Russin while working as a volunteer for the Return Gibbons to the Forest project at Phuket.

Mr Lake, 26, accompanied by a drum band and carrying trays of gifts, summoned his mate by imitating a male gibbon call.

His 28-year-old bride Israel responded with happy monkey calls while swinging down from a treetop into his embrace, reports The Nation.

After the wedding, at a wildlife sanctuary, the groom said: "Once the gibbon has chosen a mate it will not philander."

The couple also exchanged wedding bands, performed a Thai-style water-cleansing ceremony and registered their marriage in the presence of an official

As a wedding gift to the couple, wildlife officials released a gibbon family of four into the wild

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1194314.html


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  • [monkeywire] Couple marry in gibbon wedding, Gregory Rehbein, 12/07/2004

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