Sentences with phrase «other gibbon»
Not exact matches
However, 98 % of our DNA is identical to that of a subspecies of chimpanzee called the «bonobo», next in relation is the other subspecies of chimpanzee (the better know «common chimpanzee»), then gorillas, then orangutans, then the lesser apes «gibbons.»
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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.
CUNY graduate student Elaine Kozma filmed chimps, bonobos, gorillas, gibbons, and other primates in zoos so she could measure the precise angles of their legs and hips when they walked upright.
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.
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.
The last surviving Hainan gibbon population contains only three social groups, in which male and female gibbons still sing duets with each other at dawn.
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...
Liz wanted to see how each gibbon interacted both with zoo visitors and other apes of its species.
German scientists tended to the view that the skullcap was that of a giant ape such as a gibbon, while English scientists tended to view it as a human, coming from either a primitive or a pathological individual, but there were plenty of other opinions.
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.
Other animals in the collection include hornbill birds, giant flying squirrels, gibbons and the Asian bearcat.