Name: Speedy (named after a veterinarian who undertook the first vasectomies on some of our males; gibbon vasectomies are tricky things, and Speedy is proof of that!)
Sex: Female
Born: 1998
Favorite food: Her breakfast sweet potatoes and her nightly banana—but she’ll eat anything.
Favorite activity: Wrestling with Maui on the roof of their wooden climbing structure.

Speedy is one of the children of IPPL’s Arun Rangsi and Shanti, and she was born after Arun Rangsi’s first vasectomy failed (gibbon vasectomies are tricky things…). When she became mature, we started seeing some tension in her family unit, so we removed her and placed her with Maui, who had come to IPPL from the Maui Zoo in 1996. Maui had previously lived with Speedy’s feisty older sister Michelle, who had bitten him, so we were looking for a new living arrangement for him, as well.

Speedy and Maui were initially introduced to each other in March 2007. After an on-again, off-again start to their relationship (we were afraid we were seeing some aggression between them for awhile), they settled down together for real in the summer of 2008. They have gotten along together just fine ever since.

They are an active couple and enjoy playing and wrestling together—even high up on the flat roof of their wooden “playhouse.” They tend to keep to themselves, but they like spying on their gibbon neighbors, peering at them through the little gaps in the cement wall of their night quarters.