Aug. 22—The new pileated gibbon at the Great Bend Brit Spaugh Zoo remained out of sight of prying eyes, but her vocalizations could be heard loud and clear Wednesday morning from a closed building.

Lar Gibbons are native to southeast Asia and spend most of their lives in forested regions. They are an endangered series due to being hunted for bushmeat and pet trade, ...

Life Europe’s oldest lar gibbon Brian celebrates 60th Birthday. Zoo visitors adore the little lar gibbon family, and they live together as a cohesive unit.

Reid Park Zoo is mourning the loss of Billy the Lar Gibbon, a fixture at the zoo since 1987. The zoo announced in a news release Wednesday that Billy had to be euthanized. He was 51 years old.

The Utica Zoo and Carbone family – who sponsored the baby gibbon with a $10,000 donation - felt that the name was appropriate, given the primate’s relationship with father, Yoda.

Lar gibbons call out sounds that are synchronised and occur at regular intervals – a combination of rhythmic qualities that, until now, had only been seen in people. Close. Advertisement.

The lar gibbon and white-cheeked gibbon were previously found in Yunnan but have not been spotted in over a decade. These two gibbon species have now been declared extinct in the wild in China.

Yule, the White-handed (Lar) Gibbon Wild, White-handed Gibbon longevity is approximately 30 years. While they can live much longer in human care, few live to be in their 50s, as Yule did.

Zookeepers at Kujukushima Zoo and Botanical Garden Mori Kirara in Sasebo City, Nagasaki Prefecture, said they were surprised when a lar gibbon named Momo gave birth in February 2021, as the ape ...

TUCSON, Arizona (Storyful) — An endangered Lar gibbon named Billy turned an incredible 51 years old at the Reid Park Zoo in Tucson, Arizona, in early January, staff announced. The median life ...

A white-handed gibbon named JC has joined the Lincoln Park Zoo on the same day as her sixth birthday. JC arrived from the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, where she was born to mom Chanee and dad Leo.