Text/Yangcheng sent reporter He Weijie
Photo/ Yangcheng sent reporter Song Jinyu
24 October of each year is a "Gibbon Day" established by the IUCN Primate Group of Experts (SSA) for gibbon conservation and advocacy. On this day, gibbon conservation organizations and zoos around the world conduct various activities to raise public awareness of the survival and conservation status of gibbons.
On October 27, Guangzhou Zoo held the theme activity of "Gibbon Day", a white-cheeked gibbon "baby" in the park that successfully bred for the first time has reached marriageable age, and Guangzhou Zoo is currently working hard to find a partner for it nationwide.
Gibbons are extremely endangered animals in the world. It is understood that there are 20 species of gibbons in the world, all distributed in Asia, and There were once 7 species in China, but the white-palmed gibbon and the northern white-cheeked gibbon have been functionally extinct in the wild in China, mainly due to habitat destruction and poaching.
The northern white-cheeked gibbon is found only in zoos across the country and in the Wild Release Area of Xishuangbanna. The remaining 6 species of gibbons are also in danger in China, of which no more than 30 are Hainan gibbons, and the number of western black-crowned gibbons with the largest population is less than 900 in China, and the population of all species of gibbons is less than that of giant pandas.
In the captive breeding technology of gibbons, Guangzhou Zoo is at the forefront of the country. Guangzhou Zoo has been breeding gibbons since the 1970s. In April 2005, after three years of love, the two white-cheeked gibbons in the zoo, Bao Dad and Bao Ma, finally "opened their branches and leaves" and gave birth to a male small white-cheeked gibbon, named "Baby".
This marks the first successful breeding of the white-cheeked gibbon, a national first-class protected animal, in Guangzhou. Today, the white-cheeked gibbon "baby" of Yushu Linfeng has already reached the marriageable year, and guangzhou zoo is currently working hard to find a partner for it for the whole country.
Researchers at the Guangzhou Zoo told reporters that the breeding of gibbons is very different from other primates, gibbons have to be 7 or 8 years old to reach the breeding period, and many of them are singletons, and gibbons are very selective in mate selection, "dislike is dislike, and are monogamous, similar to people." "To better study the reproductive problem of gibbons."
On October 26, researchers from Guangzhou Zoo walked into Wuliangshan National Nature Reserve and jointly established the "Wildlife Rescue and Research Base" with the Jingdong Management and Conservation Bureau of Zhongshan University. Initiate the conservation of the western black-crowned gibbon and its associated species in the wild, and promote exchanges and cooperation between ex situ conservation and in situ conservation. (For more news, please pay attention to Yangcheng Pie pai.ycwb.com)
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