Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists may have discovered why one of the most threatened species in the world has bounced back from the brink of extinction.

If you’re walking through a rainforest, you might want to keep your head up. How else would you know to duck to avoid a swinging gibbon? Gibbons are playful and fun apes who live in the treetops.

Jorhat/Guwahati: The serene dew-covered dawn is broken with loud, shrill songs in the dense, green forests of Jorhat’s Hollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary in Assam. The western hoolock gibbons — the only non ...

AKRON, Ohio (WJW) – The Akron Zoo welcomed its newest resident on Friday afternoon. Parker, one of the Akron Zoo’s white-cheeked gibbons, gave birth to a baby gibbon at 4:20 p.m., officials announced ...

Gibbons effortlessly use the same techniques as professional opera singers when calling out to other animals, scientists found by listening to the squeaky songs of one of the apes on helium. The ...

Five of the six nonhuman primate species found in the Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands have traditionally been hunted; traditional beliefs forbid killing the sixth, Kloss’s gibbon, or bilou. With ...

Erie Zoo primates swing, climb, groom and eat outdoors and indoors in summer The Erie Zoo is home to numerous primates, including the black-handed spider monkeys, Bornean orangutans, lesser spot-nosed ...

A 6-year-old lar gibbon, a tree-dwelling primate species known for its distinctly white ringed face, now resides at the BioPark and Zoo.Named Polaris, the gibbon became friends with the other gibbon ...

Forest and primates, a general introduction to the conservation of endemic primates in the Sundaic region -- Density and biomass estimates of gibbons (Hylobates muelleri) in Bornean rainforest : a ...

Scientists may have discovered why one of the most threatened species in the world has bounced back from the brink of extinction. Populations of the Hainan gibbon – a critically endangered primate ...