From a standing start, a 10m tree-to-tree leap is not a problem for the gibbon.
Trevor- Roper constantly measured himself against the two great masters of English historical writing Macaulay and Edward Gibbon.
Over gibbon generations, the best jumpers have survived to pass on their talents.
There is a special species of Bornean gibbon here, and you will get to see some of them up close.
By Trevor-Roper's day history had become too professionalised to allow anybody to range over the centuries in the way that Gibbon did.
Throughout his life, Kennan was a prolific writer and an exceptional stylist, somewhat in the manner of his historian hero, Edward Gibbon.
David Gibbon spoke to the company's head of games, Kamar Shah.
His greatest hero, however, was Edward Gibbon, the 18th-century historian.
To make an orthograde single-footed leap, which was the most common way to jump, the gibbon continued its walk taking one full stride before reaching the take off phase.
BBC: Earth News - How gibbons leap huge distances revealed by scientists
The gibbon used a similar motion to create a two footed take off, but as its name suggests, the ape placed foot feet on the ground before leaping into the air.
BBC: Earth News - How gibbons leap huge distances revealed by scientists
The golden-headed langur of Vietnam and China's Hainan gibbon are down to a few dozen and the Horton Plains slender loris of Sri Lanka has been spotted only four times since 1937.
This revealed that the gibbon uses four distinct modes of leaping, categorised as the orthograde single footed take-off, the orthograde two footed take-off, the orthograde squat jump and the pronograde single footed take off.
BBC: Earth News - How gibbons leap huge distances revealed by scientists
As Mr Boorstin loved to point out, Gibbon was an amateur: a man who, without belonging to any professional association or bowing to historical conventions, produced the most impressive work of history of his age.
By digitising the outline of each jumping gibbon frame by frame, they revealed how its centre of mass moved, and they calculated the forces needed to propel 6kg (a stone) of hairy ape through the air.
At a briefing given by the Foreign Secretary William Hague and the Irish Foreign Minister Eamon Gilmore, Channel Four's Gary Gibbon invited the politicians to share the interpretation that the joint appearance at the Garden was "a moment of contrition".
Friends, we are running through a playbook of national decline laid out by thinkers ranging from Gibbon to Montesquieu (use of mercenaries to fight our wars and clean our toilets, imperial overreach, an intellectually apathetic citizenry, onerous taxes, tax evasion, failure to protect borders, and failure to inculcate newcomers in the time-honored values of the nation).
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