Sentences with phrase «on 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.

It is only in the last few decades or so that the Chinese research team, led by Professor Fan Pengfei, has been able to return to Yunnan and establish a proper research programme on the gibbons of Gaoligongshan, which has allowed us to understand what these animals really are.

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

Not exact matches

They found it was most likely caused inadvertently by the unregulated international trading of gibbons and laboratory work on viruses in US military and other medical research facilities.

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.

The researchers found that the virus was almost certainly inadvertently transmitted to the gibbons from rodents by medical researchers working on human diseases such as malaria and dengue fever.

Although the fossil looks a bit like a gibbon skull on first blush, Nengo says, its dental pattern and teeth shape suggest its closest relatives are other Miocene fossil primates from the genus Nyanzapithecus, also found in Kenya.

Chanee Brulé is on a mission to save Borneo's gibbons, but it hasn't proved an easy task.

On the contrary, the findings of this new study suggest that the ancestor of all apes lived in an environment that favored a gibbon - like size, an ape of about five kilograms.

The icing on the cake comes in a completely unnecessary scene in which he dances by himself in a strobe - lit club like a lanky gibbon jumped up on Adderall.

If you get lucky, your guide is likely to shimmer his flashlights on the red eyes of a gibbon, samba deer, or mouse deer, the latter being a petite, pointy - nosed cross between a deer and, of course, a mouse.