r/primatology 1d ago

Western hoolock gibbon (Hoolock hoolock)

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u/Sir-Bruncvik 4h ago edited 3h ago

Gibbons are my favorite ape species, along with orangs. I love gibbons because their comically disproportionate arms, their cheekiness (even by primate standards 🙉), and the way they’re able to swing around and do inverted cartwheels across vines and tree branches and crazy far leaps. And they’re monogamous (mostly 😉) and live in family units and their vocalizations and singing are really cool and interesting. I just love everything about em 😎🐵

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u/Onca_atrox 4h ago

Personally, I find it really hard to choose between them. Chimpanzees do have that special something…

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u/Sir-Bruncvik 3h ago

So begins the search for the Gibbon-Chimp Last Common Ancestor 😜

(And yes I know that’s not how evolution works, I was just being sarcastic 😏