White Handed Gibbons

The white handed gibbon has long, muscular arms that exceed the length of his body. This acrobatic ape is a lesser ape. Lesser apes are like their relatives the great apes but are smaller in size; they have a more slender form and longer canine teeth. In addition when they swing from branch to branch, a form of locomotion called brachiating, they use their finger tips as hooks. The hands have long fingers and the small thumb is set close to the wrist, keeping it out of the way as the gibbon swings. This gibbon spends most of the day looking for fruit, leaves and insects. Time is usually spent on mutual grooming each day. The gibbons perform a daily duet usually around dusk or dawn. It is a call of long hootsto each other and to neighboring groups.

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