Sentences with phrase «more gibbons»

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.

Not exact matches

Until now, we knew little about this bone's natural history, except that it is present in Old World monkeys and gibbons but generally not in our more recent ape relatives.

«There are numerous fossil apes, monkeys, and even more primitive fossil primates that look a bit like gibbons,» explains Christopher Gilbert of the City University of New York, a member of the team that analysed the fossil.

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

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.

An international team of more than 100 scientists, policy makers and community representatives, led by international conservation charity the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), today published a new report outlining the vital steps needed to save the Hainan gibbon (Nomascus hainanus) from extinction.

Comparisons with the genome data of humans and our closest relatives, the great apes, show that while we all genetically have the same ancestors, the genetic information of the gibbons has changed more rapidly and stronger in the course of the evolutionary process.

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.

Humans, other great apes, and gibbons, (but not more distantly related primates like baboons) can't dispose of the the waste product of purine metabolism (uric acid), and hence we're susceptible to gout when consuming carnivorous diets.

It is important to report anyone offering a photo opportunity with a gibbon as these have been taken from the wild and thus reducing their diminishing numbers even more.

Biofuels will continue to pollute the atmosphere more than petrol or diesel, all under the veil of an emissions - reducing policy, and will increasingly threaten the homes of animals like the orangutans and gibbons that live here in Borneo.