Yangzi Evening News Network, August 2 (reporter Xu Sheng) these two days, tourists come to Nanjing Hongshan Zoo, through the gibbon exhibition area, will be attracted by a warm and comfortable picture. A pair of gibbon mother and son are leisurely swinging on the swing, swinging out of the mother-child love, swinging out of the afternoon leisure. The happy northern white-cheeked gibbons, the two small "rhubarb" and "big black", welcomed their 7th child last fall, and the breeder named "Qiu Shi". The "Qiu Shi" baby is now 10 months old and is a little boy.
Qiu Zhen was still in the stage of drinking milk, as if he had "grown" on his mother, he was a "sticky essence", and most of the time he still held his mother with his arms and stayed in his mother's arms. Because of the gibbon's super strong motor genes, Qiu Shi can follow her mother around the arm and flip at any speed, which is very stable.
Mom feels that the environment is safe and will allow Qiu Shi to leave her and act alone, but she needs to stay within a safe range. Generally, Qiu Shi will practice climbing and playing alone next to his mother, qiu shi is the most dependent and trusts his mother the most, often frolicking with his mother, and his mother is also spoiled by him.
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Northern white-cheeked gibbon small science
The northern white-cheeked gibbon is a national key protected animal. Adult northern white-cheeked gibbon coat is black for females and pale yellow for males. Baby apes are born pale white or pale yellow, and gradually turn black around 6 months. Males usually turn completely black and have white cheeks around 18 months, while females will turn pale yellow again.
The northern white-cheeked gibbon is mainly distributed in Laos, and only a small number of populations are distributed in southern Yunnan and northern Vietnam. The global population is unknown, and it is currently listed as a critically endangered species by IUCN and is a first-class protected animal in China. The northern white-cheeked gibbon was once widely distributed in Mengla, Jiangcheng and Luchun in southern Yunnan, China. In 1960, it was estimated that the population number was not less than 2,000. Due to the rapid loss of habitat and the impact of illegal poaching, the population of the northern white-cheeked gibbon in China has declined rapidly, and the population of the northern white-cheeked gibbon in China has dropped to less than 50 by the end of the 1980s. The latest surveys suggest that the northern white-cheeked gibbon in our country may have become extinct.