The Gibbon, a smaller member of the primate family, is well-known for its long arms and hands. Its speed makes it difficult to see, but its distinctive call is easy to identify. A trip to the ...

It’s too bad a gibbon can’t sing in the opera—these apes vocalize with the same techniques that sopranos use to bring down the house. A study in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology raised ...

According to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, the black crested gibbon is now a Critically Endangered species. It’s unfortunate, considering the gibbon is one of the world’s most majestic and ...

University of Western Australia provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. Gibbons and humans have more in common than might immediately seem apparent. Among many behavioural ...

IN TINY villages, home to Li and Miao communities, the tattooed old folk still tell stories about gibbons. Stories about the pair of orphans driven out by an evil stepmother, who hid in the trees and ...