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About Gibbons By Vernell Stock
I copied some of this out of a book I have. It says it better than I can.
In the wild gibbons live in the tropical forests of Southeast Asia, in countries such as Thailand and Malaysia. Since these forest are cut off from each other by seas and rivers, species of gibbon differ greatly from forest to forest. Some gibbons are honey yellow, some are jet black, some are silvery gray-and some even change color during their lifetimes. They're born a light color, then turn dark, then light again. In some species, males and females are different colors. For example, the female Hoolock gibbon is golden; the male is black.
Gibbons are the acrobats of the ape world. They use their long arms to hang from high branches and swing along at top speed--and when they leap across gaps, they look like they are flying. They have very long fingers for holding on to branches. Gibbons cannot walk on all fours because their arms are so much longer than their legs. Instead, they walk upright and hold their arms above their head to keep them out of the way and balance. They look like tightrope-walkers. When our girls play on the ground they run holding their arms straight up and look up and make a smiley face. Looks sooooo funny. Gabby will also turn circles and then do summer salts when she is trying hard to entertain us. Robin's baby can't walk upright yet, so he just runs like a crab across the floor.)
Gibbons are the only apes that do not build nests. They sleep sitting up in forks of trees. They are quite comfortable because they have pads of skin on their backsides which are like built-in cushions. Gibbons are the only apes that live in pairs, and mate for life. A male and female have 2 or 3 children living with them of different ages. The whole family travels through the trees every day in search of ripe fruit, leaves, and shoots to eat. Gibbons are so small and light that they can hang from the tips of branches and reach fruit growing right at the ends.(adults approx. 15 pds.)Gibbons families are very close knit.
Gibbons are faithful family members. In the wild they live as a family and mate for life. The family usually consists of the Mom, Dad and 3 offsprings. When the offspring reaches the age of maturity they go off to neighboring troops to find a mate. The whole family goes with them to help and support the child. If the youngster doesn't find a suitable mate they all go back to their own territory and try again later. It has been documented where a family will go out 3 or 4 times before the youngster finds a mate. Once they do, they go off with their new mate and start their own family unit. The Mom's usually give birth every 2 years. The Grant's farm gibbon family was a wonderful group. If one felt threatened the rest would support it. The older sisters would help with the babies. When the Mom gave birth the 2 year old would always get stressed and crying because the Mom would no longer let it nurse or carry it. The older sisters always would go pick them up when they cried, and comfort them and carry them around. The whole family helped with grooming the baby. I have never seen the Dad holding the baby but have seen the older sisters holding very young babies.
The year our old Mom died she had a 10 month old baby still on her and the older sister just took him and nurtured him and even let him nurse. She didn't have any milk of course but still let him suck. I rolled their fruit in the powdered milk and he did fine. He will be 3 this November.
The baby and also the other youngsters were allowed to take food out of the Mom or Dad's hand. Or a baby could take food from any of them. One year we were trying to catch them up to take them off of the island as it was getting cold, and the Mom would not go into the house so we could get her. So we thought we were going to make her go in by only putting the food in the house. The rest of the family just carried it to her in the tree. It was sooo cute. Well I was the only one that thought it was cute. hee hee We ended up having to dart her to get her in.
Brad and Trouble
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we really liked your report on gibbons. Cool.
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Dear Brad,
I loved your post on Gibbons!! Would like to know if
they are extremely high priced and hard to find.
Thanks,
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Looking for the classification of a monkey for science class. The teacher only gave us characteristics of the particular monkey. I know the monkey is easily identified by the shape of its eyes. It has almond shaped eyes that slant upward something like cat eyes. He has beautiful fur that begins at its face and fans outward. He also has pouches for storing berries, etc. Can you help me identify this type of monkey. Thanks\
I am thinking that it may be a Gibbon, but cannot locate any photos online.

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I THINK GIBBONS ARE THE COOLEST MONKEY.THEY'RE SO COOL AND SO
CUTE.

FROM,
MELISSA
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do you know how much exspensive Gibbons are and if so are they hard to find
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we want to know whether orang utans or gibbons have longer arms in proportion to their bodies. Could you email me with the answer at mr_cong@hotmail.com

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i think that Gibbons hibernate! they must!!!!they MUST AHHHHHHHHHHH
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I am doing a research paper on the Gibbon. I must say that they are pretty darned cute! I keep learning more and more about them every time I'm on the web!
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I AM INTERESTED IN FINDING A GIBBON BREEDER. ALSO, MORE DETAILED INFORMATION, ON HAVING A GIBBON AS A PET.

I LOVE GIBBONS, I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE A PICTURE W/ A GIBBON,
WHILE I WAS IN THE FLOATING MARKET IN BANGKOK, THAILAND.

THANKS
DENISE
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