Gibbons, scientific name (Hylobatidae) belong to: mammals, primates, simple nose subfamily (suborder Apes), gibbon family, which is also divided into 4 genera, a total of 16 species
(Gibbon), originally named by a foreigner named Gray, in 1870.
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Gibbons are difficult to observe in the rainforest, but we can find them in nature reserves.
Adult male gibbons have body hairs of black, brown, and brown, three colors. Female gibbons and gibbon pups have a lighter coat color and are generally brownish yellow, golden, milky white and silver gray.
Subdividing the species of gibbons, we can also know different gibbons from some small details, the black crown hair on the head is like a hated gibbon, and the agile is the min ape, also known as the black palm gibbon.
The body hair is long and fluffy, and the body color is silver and gray is a silver-white gibbon, also known as a silver ape.
With a circle of white hair growing on its face is a gray gibbon; a sparse and dark ape with sparse body hair, it is the smallest gibbon, with a body length of about 70 cm and a weight of less than 6 kg. The azoxylateral ape is the largest gibbon, with a body length of 70–90 cm, arms outstretched up to 180 cm, and a weight of 10–16 kg.
The body hair is long and fluffy, all black, the face is bare, there are some white hairs near the mouth, and the eyebrows are reddish brown. The ears are small, the nose is flattened, and the nostrils are larger. The head of the male has a pinch of upright hair, and there are obvious clusters of black penis hairs, which are about 15 centimeters long.
Distinctive features
There are two other distinctive features that distinguish the synaptic ape from other apes:
One is that the vocal sacs of the larynx are bare, round and large, gray or pink, bulging like a leather ball when they cry;
The second is the webbing between the second and third toes, so that the two toes are permanently joined together, even to the joint at the end.
Regarding other morphological characteristics, let's compare its "relatives" with gibbons, and you will have a clearer understanding of the gibbon species.
Differences in organ function
Monkeys have hamster-like cheek sacs on either side of their cheeks that store food. But when it comes to gibbons, gibbons don't have this functional part.
It may be related to the living environment of monkeys and gibbons, resulting in gibbons not needing the function of having cheek sacs to store food, because the plant food in the rainforest is abundant.
We all know that monkeys' butts are red, so there are a lot of jokes about monkey butts, but don't think it's just monkeys that deliberately don't grow hair. It is just that the monkey sits on the ground for a long time and rubs the floor left and right to create a cocoon, called pián zhī.
Gibbons have similar callos, but gibbons have black or gray calluses. Another relative of gibbons, the chimpanzee, had nothing on his ass.
Each has its own "long"
Gibbons, like most species of monkeys, live mostly in trees. In addition to his signal-like butt, the most famous thing is the long tail of the monkey brother, which is flexible and practical, often helping the monkey brother hang upside down on the tree to assist in picking food, or maintain balance when jumping in the canopy.
Gibbons don't have such tails anymore, but gibbons don't envy them at all, after all, gibbons have such long hands. (Gorilla: Whoops, I don't have anything!) ）
By comparing the gibbon with its relatives, we can naturally determine what the gibbon's characteristics are, which is convenient for us to confirm later. But is that enough?
No! Not at all! When it comes to primates, how can we not make a comparison with us humans, lol.
Since it is a gibbon, let's see how many and long its arms are.
Adult men stretch their arms about one meter seven or so (friends without this concept put their arms out for comparison oh, single women recommend finding a boyfriend to read this article again).
The gibbon's palm is curved like an itch, and its arm span is much longer than the height of an adult male, so the gibbon's arm looks like a super large tickle as tall as a man! (Mom never had to worry about scratching the itchy spot on my back anymore!) ）
Gibbon's arms are very slender, but gibbons' bodies are like the Creator joked with it.
When gibbons stand upright, the net height of gibbons is only about 90 centimeters, and gibbons walking in the rainforest are normally only 45.6-63.5 centimeters long, so short and natural that their legs are also short.
In this way, gibbons will inevitably be dragged on the ground when they move on land, so they will often raise their hands high.
In many animal-imitating shows, the orangutan raises its hand in imitation of a gibbon. (Orangutan said: I won't do such stupid things!) No! ）
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Gibbons are mainly distributed in the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia, living in evergreen broad-leaved forests at altitudes of about 100 to 2000 meters.
In China's Yunnan, there are also some gibbons, they live at an altitude of about 2000 to 2500 meters high, and the gibbons in Yunnan will do vertical migration every winter, migrating to low altitudes. And in the earlier times, that is, during the Tang and Song dynasties, gibbons once lived near the Yangtze River Basin, and their cries could be heard for a distance of more than one kilometer, so when ancient poets were traveling in the mountains, it was easy to encounter things like not seeing the "ape face" but listening to the "ape sound". as:
Du Fu's "Ascending to the Heights": "The wind is rushing in the sky, the apes are wailing, and the white birds of Nagisa Qingsha fly back"
Li Bai's "Early White Emperor City": "The apes on both sides of the strait can't stop crying, and the light boat has passed through the Ten Thousand Heavy Mountains"
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Unlike orangutans and monkeys, which are clustered together as a whole as individuals, communities of gibbons usually take a small family as a unit.
Monogamy is strictly practised within the family, with a male and a female in a family and several half-adult or juvenile gibbon cubs.
Male gibbons play a major role in the family to protect and care for members of the family (there is danger!). Ape: "Here I come!" "There was something to eat! Female Ape: "Here I come!" "）。
Whatever suffering is that male gibbons rush to the front to stop other family members, because gibbons are matrilineal species, so they will not let female gibbons shoot, then male gibbons will of course pay more.
And male apes are very protective of their children, even if the gibbon cubs are close to adulthood, male gibbons will take care of them regularly. Male gibbons are not completely unrewarded, as evidenced by the closeness of females to males.
Every morning the female and male apes would greet each other in a strange voice, asking how it sounded? Because gibbons are pronounced similar to sopranos, it feels like two sopranos singing to each other?
Well, that's probably how it feels.
Each small family has its own fixed area, about 2 to 4 square kilometers in size (is the breath of a large landowner), because gibbons have wide shoulders and short butt calves, resulting in gibbons can not learn to swim at all, so their communities are often cut by the river and distributed on both sides of the river.
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Gibbon's hands are curved like the pirate captain's hook in the movie, and the hand muscles are very developed, which can provide safety for gibbons to leap through the rainforest. Plus a wrist that can be rotated to any angle, it's extremely flexible.
This allows gibbons to fly around trees 10 to 25 meters above the ground. Moving forward in the woods with alternating arms, a jump can be more than 10 meters long, and you can catch a bird with one hand during the leap.
Gibbons forage without making any sound, often feeding on tropical fruits from the rainforest (berries, stone fruits, nuts, and a special favorite of something called banyan fruit).
In the canopy, the young leaves of the trees, the young shoots of the leaves, and the flower buds are occasionally picked. The 10 yuan a pound of figs we usually see in the supermarket is one of the most common foods they eat (the real name envies the | ू•ૅω•́）ᵎᵎᵎ）。
Gibbon's evil little hand occasionally reaches out to other small animals, eats small amounts of insects, or birds caught in the process of jumping, and even the eggs in the nest cannot escape. However, gibbons still have more plant foods in their diets, accounting for 90.6%.
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Human development has greatly interfered in the survival of gibbons and greatly changed the living environment of gibbons.
In some countries in Southeast Asia, the cash crops are as follows:
The main economic products of Southeast Asian countries: rubber, coffee, palm oil, coconut
It is surreal to ask a country or even a region to stop developing because of one animal, but as humans destroy the habitat of creatures such as gibbons, more and more creatures are dying. In addition to development, we should give animal friends more attention and care, and protect the furry children.
Don't let the Yangtze River of the Tang and Song Dynasties sing, become the world's song!
At present, there are only 1500 wild gibbons in the world, and China lists the Hainan gibbon as a national first-class protected animal.