Sentences with phrase «for gibbons»

i understand why wenger opted for gibbons instead because defending doesn't interest walcot..

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n. Umbrella term for the primate superfamily, Hominoidea: gibbons, great apes (gorillas, orangutans, and chimpanzees), and humans.

Without any lower - body bones for N. alesi, it's too early to rule out the possibility that Nyanzapithecus gave rise to modern gibbons and perhaps Oreopithecus as well, says paleontologist David Alba of the Catalan Institute of Paleontology Miquel Crusafont in Barcelona.

Videos of two captive white - handed gibbons (Hylobates lar) leaping from one branch of a jungle gym to another reveal that the apes break the record for work per mass performed in a single movement by any other species to date.

Rhesus males, however, leave the family group at adulthood and search for multiple mates, while gibbons are monogamous.

When they examined the canal structures of more than 200 mammal species, the research team found that fast, agile movers — like gibbons and leaping tarsiers — have exceptionally large canals for their size, while slow, deliberate animals like sloths have small ones.

Dr Samuel Turvey, Senior Research Fellow at ZSL, who co-chaired the major international conservation planning meeting in Hainan that produced the report, said: «Ensuring a future for the Hainan gibbon is one of the most important global priorities in mammal conservation.

A gibbon - like size has a range of consequences for existing models of ape evolution.

Mike Tomasello of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and others have compiled a list of gestures observed in monkeys, gibbons, gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orang - utans, which reveals that gesticulation plays a large role in their communication (Gesture, vol 5, p...

In conjunction with its policy of developing more naturalistic settings for the primates, the zoo has, in recent years, successfully established breeding groups or pairs of lemurs, lion - tailed macaques, Japanese macaques, gelada baboons, proboscis monkeys, slow lorises and gibbons.

Only a couple of decades later, the political situation in China changed, making it almost impossible for foreign researchers to visit the country, and preventing Chinese scientists from carrying out any research themselves on gibbons.

In an effort to differentiate Java Man from these later finds, Dubois emphasized the apelike characteristics of his fossil, giving rise to the common myth that he had decided Java Man was just a gibbon, and had abandoned his claim for its intermediate status.

They lack the long, strong fingers used by chimps and gorillas for knucklewalking, and the elongation of the hand found in the highly arboreal gibbons and orang - utans.

A physician duly licensed to practice medicine in this state, who is board certified in an area of human medicine equivalent to the required veterinary specialty in cases in which a veterinary specialist in the area of medicine required for such animal's care does not exist, is not available, or can not be procured in a timely fashion, who provides medical care to a gibbon or siamang (Hylobatidae, Hylobates sp.), orangutan (Hominidae Pongindae, Pongo sp.), chimpanzee (Hominidae, Homininae Pan.

The Sabangau rainforest is home to the world's largest populations of orangutans and Southern Bornean gibbons, but places like this are increasingly under threat across southeast Asia from conversion to oil palm, a crop that's used to produce biofuels for foreign markets like Europe.

For example, 30 shirts were produced of the vaquita, 40 of the northern sportive lemur, 150 of the Cao - vit gibbon, 157 of the kakapo, 231 of the California condor, 350 of the Sumatran tiger, etc..