{"id":1417,"date":"2008-12-05T13:40:09","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T13:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2009-01-10T10:37:43","modified_gmt":"2009-01-10T10:37:43","slug":"first-gibbon-sanctuary-in-second-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/2008\/12\/05\/first-gibbon-sanctuary-in-second-life\/","title":{"rendered":"First Gibbon Sanctuary In Second Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well maybe that’s overstating things. But I don’t know of another one, and from small acorns do mighty oaks grow; I’m quite proud of my new land investment in Second Life.<\/p>\n

The plot, which has great sea views, already hosts a nice cherry blossom and one high resolution gibbon – complete with gibbon song environmental sound.<\/p>\n

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Be it ever so humble......<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Sunset with gibbon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is all part of an effort to explore and get to grips with virtual worlds as a vehicle for science communication. Having bought the land, I now have somewhere to practice building and scripting. Second Life uses a Java type coding language, but as the last coding I did was of a thermodynamic model for energy minimisation in silicate slag systems – in FORTRAN77 – I’m on a learning curve.<\/p>\n

Watch this space…….<\/p>\n

(I took the gibbon photo at the Santa Clarita Gibbon Conservation Center run by Alan Mootnick<\/a> – hereby acknowledged and to which you are welcome to make a donation \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n

Update January 2009 – Zoonmian’s Second Life presence can now be found at this location<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well maybe that’s overstating things. But I don’t know of another one, and from small acorns do mighty oaks grow; I’m quite proud of my new land investment in Second Life. The plot, which has great sea views, already hosts a nice cherry blossom and one high resolution gibbon – complete with gibbon song environmental … Continue reading First Gibbon Sanctuary In Second Life<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,30,6,73],"tags":[405,202,1416,1414],"class_list":["post-1417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-conservation","category-education","category-technology","tag-gibbon-sanctuary","tag-santa-clarita","tag-science-communication","tag-second-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkpOr-mR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1427,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions\/1427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}