monkey trap

February 19th, 2009 pianist

I was walking by the forest’s edge when I saw that black ball by the field. The black ball itself did not interest me that much, but it was the creation of that context that I was interested in. I wanted to know for whom the  ball was for and who put it there? I knew it was some sort of a trap because of the miserable food scraps within the ball.

Trap Setter with Black Crested Gibbon (Nomascus concolor) Trap

The ball, later turned out to be a monkey trap, an ingenious contraption created by the locals to trap gibbons. There were many versions of this trap before the one I was staring. The igmoks have perfected their trap to the shape of a ball.

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