For the rarest primate in the world, there's now a temporary solution: a rope bridge reconnecting the trees. And scientists have filmed the ape, a type of gibbon, climbing or swinging across in ...

Learn more › While the two adorable pygmy hippos continue to vie for the title of cutest viral animal, a new primate stands poised to steal some hearts. On October 27, a new baby siamang gibbon ...

The discovery of a new breeding pair raises hope for the survival of the world's rarest primate, the Hainan Gibbon. Ravaged by deforestation and poaching, the ape now lives only in a patch of ...

Now Takeshi Nishimura of Kyoto University's Primate Research Institute and his colleagues have tested whether lar gibbons (also known as white-handed gibbons, Hylobates lar) have this same ...

More information: Camille Coye et al, Dance displays in gibbons: biological and linguistic perspectives on structured, ...

What is the northern white-cheeked gibbon? Though they might look a bit like monkeys, northern white-cheeked gibbons are officially classified as apes. One easy way to tell the difference is that ...

By Carolyn Cowan Gibbons are famed for their graceful agility high in the forest canopy. Swinging effortlessly from branch to ...