Sentences with word «gibbon»

An international team of researchers that includes Christian Roos, Markus Brameier and Lutz Walter from the German Primate Center (DPZ) in Göttingen, have decoded the genome of gibbons from Southeast Asia.

The mystery of an outbreak of lymphoma and leukemia in gibbon colonies in the US, Bermuda and Thailand in the late 1960s and early 1970s has been solved by animal disease detectives at The University of Nottingham.

There were more than 2,000 Hainan gibbons in the 1950s.

A peculiar Spanish fossil from 11.6 million years ago suggests that the ancestor of all apes might have been more like gibbons and less like great apes

Those, such as gibbons, which typically live with only three or four others, groom for 5 per cent of their day at most.

But this time, she focused on gibbons, a type of ape.

Written by MARK MILLAR & MATTHEW VAUGHN Art by DAVE GIBBONS Colors by ANGUS MCKIE Mark Millar is a love him or hate him kind of writer.

Lecturer in Veterinary Cellular Microbiology, Dr Rachael Tarlinton, explained: «We thought the strange outbreak of gibbon ape leukemia and lymphoma in certain colonies fifty years ago was an enigma worth investigating, not least to see if we could find any evidence that GALV is still a problem among live populations today.

Given the cerebellum's functions, Barton suggests it may have started with the first apes learning to swing from branch to branch, as modern gibbons do.

Dress is obvs for somebody with gibbon arms.

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

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.

By Justin Calderon Button - faced gibbons lankily toss themselves through the canopy, a petite mouse deer gnaws at a bush below, and Betek — the chief and shaman of his tribe — methodically whittles another blow dart to such slender precision it nearly becomes invisible to the eye.

I saw gibbons for the first time when I was 12 in a zoo in southern France, where I grew up.

I knows it's just arsenal but how well did gibbons play?

In June 2012, Republic of Ireland goalkeeper Shay Given had the honour of having a baby gibbon named after him.

In 1969 cases of malignant lymphoma were reported in a single colony of white - handed gibbons in a US military research facility in Bangkok, Thailand and were at the time attributed to an unknown infectious agent.

The same probably held for N. alesi, making it an unlikely direct ancestor of living gibbons, they conclude.

N. alesi's tiny mouth and nose, along with several other facial characteristics, make it look much like small - bodied apes called gibbons.

Faces resembling gibbons evolved independently in several extinct monkeys, apes and their relatives, the researchers say.

Falk suspects the size discrepancy can be linked to the philandering tendencies of our primate ancestors.Falk found that like humans, male rhesus monkeys had larger brains than females, while male and female gibbon apes were equally endowed.

«In future projects, sequencing will be performed on other gibbon species.

Button - faced gibbons lankily toss themselves through the canopy, a petite mouse deer gnaws at a bush below, and Betek — the chief and shaman of his tribe — methodically whittles another blow dart to such slender precision it nearly becomes invisible to the eye.

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.

Right now, there are about 3,300 simakobu monkeys left in the dwindling forests of Indonesia; Less than 300 Cross River gorillas in the hills of Nigeria; Just about 110 black crested gibbons in Asia; No more than 100 sportive lemurs left in Madagascar; And fewer than 70 golden - headed langur left in the jungles of Vietnam.

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..

This agent was identified as GALV retrovirus, which was not native to the species, two years later when five more gibbons in the same colony were diagnosed with leukemia.

The team also found that the unregulated trading of research gibbons at the time may have even caused GALV infection found in a monkey kept as a pet in a San Francisco apartment which went on to develop lymphosarcoma.

Coen is already doing something like this with white - cheeked gibbons.

«Critically endangered gibbon: New action plan to save world's rarest primate.»

The Hainan gibbon survives because of concerted work to save it.

This morning I awoke to the sound of bearded pigs rustling in the undergrowth and gibbons singing from the treetops.

Sumatra is also home to black gibbon, Jaguars, rhinoceroses, and tigers.

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It is also evolutionarily unique, as it was the earliest of four gibbon lineages to split off.

«Virologists unravel mystery of late 20th century gibbon leukaemia outbreak.»

We also analysed correspondence about the transportation of gibbons during the 60s and 70s, laboratory and zoological records to discover the origin of the retrovirus and how it could have been transmitted.»

In a paper published in Mammal Review, the researchers crucially also found no evidence of infection in current populations of captive gibbons — an endangered species — and no evidence that the virus is still a threat.

Even so, it's possible to tell that N. alesi did not behave as present - day gibbons do.

But while Greek Olympians had the help of stone or metal hand weights known as halteres, gibbons leap up to 10 meters without assistance.

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

Sanjida O'Connell talks with the radio DJ about the obstacles he's encountered, his flair for playing gibbon matchmaker and the music he's using to rescue these «singing» apes.

GREG GIBBONS, managing director of Australian Biotechnological Resources, is fond of telling the story of the best way to set about building a house.

The Hainan gibbon once ruled its Chinese island.

Parker doesn't say, but this sounds like a rehash of the old creationist canard that Dubois eventually decided that the Java Man skullcap was just a giant gibbon and nothing to do with human evolution.

Whether or not the bones were from a large - brained gibbon, a hominid, another animal, or two completely different animals is not important.

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.

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