Travis
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Bonnie Tsui:
Are you a swimmer yourself? Do you have a personal connection to this book?
Bonnie Tsui
My parents met in a swimming pool in Hong Kong; it's part of my origin story. My brother and I joined the swim team and became lifeguards in due time, just like our father. Swimming has been a constant, a through line running across the last three and a half decades of my life. My own relationship with it can't help but be a through line in this book.
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Marc Faoite
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Bonnie Tsui:
I live in Malaysia and have seen monkeys (crab-eating and long-tailed macaques to be precise) swimming many times. You mention in your book that primates need to be taught to swim, but it looks like it's just regular behaviour for these macaques. Unless it's like chimpanzees using sticks to fish for ants - a 'cultural' specificity in certain populations of macaques?
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