Monday Morning Video: Swimming Apes!

Last week National Geographic posted a story about the first recorded example of apes swimming.  As a lover of both anthropology and swimming, I thought I'd make this footage of an orangutan named Suryia and a chimpanzee named Cooper our Monday Morning Video (I couldn't embed the Nat Geo video, but found the above on the Guardian UK site).

Also check out the website of the scientists who created the video--Nicole and Renato Bender--who are interested in "primates' interaction with water," which they believe has been understudied in human evolutionary circles.

Looking forward to learning more about hominids' evolutionary history with swimming as their research continues!