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Gibbon — printable fact sheet
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Gibbon
Hylobates lar
Gibbons are the small apes - about 20 species in four genera across Southeast Asia - and their bodies are built almost entirely around one thing: brachiation, hand-over-hand swinging through the canopy at speeds up to 55 km/h and across gaps of 8 m or more. To make that possible…
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- Unlike most primates, gibbons have wrist joints that function like a ball-and-socket, allowing for incredible flexibility during their rapid brachiation.
- Gibbons walk bipedally along branches with arms raised for balance, and they are the most habitually two-legged of all non-human apes. Their duets are learned and pair-specific, and newly paired gibbons take months to synchronise their songs properly. Despite the tree-swinging speed, gibbons fall regularly - skeletal surveys find healed fractures in a large share of wild adults.
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