Sentences with phrase «with gibbon»

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.

Under this scheme, Java Man, especially if reconstructed with gibbon - like body proportions, had an index of 1/2, which placed it nicely in the gap between apes and humans.

As well as lacking the bony elbow ridge that we share with gibbons, P. cataloniae also has a bony ear canal — a feature only seen before in a different, extinct group of primates.

Not exact matches

With only 25 individuals left, the Hainan gibbon (Nomascus hainanus) is the primate closest to extinction, but it could be saved thanks to a rescue plan announced this week by the Zoological Society of London.

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.

Although they lived in a land richly endowed with carnivores, our ancestors could not run like the gazelle, burrow like the rabbit, climb trees like the gibbon, fly away like the flamingo, or fight back like the elephant.

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.

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

Art, dance and music are not confined to human culture, they say: bower birds decorate their nests with an «aesthetic that resonates with ours»; gibbons «fling themselves balletically through the high forests», and «chimps delight in resonant drumming».

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.

With only 25 individuals remaining in less than 20 square kilometres of forest in China's Hainan Island, the Critically Endangered Hainan gibbon is one of the rarest animals in the world.

Thanks to the DNA element, the gibbon is also known as the one with the long, strong arms who elegantly moves through the forests of Southeast Asia.

Their first appearance can be traced back with a high probability to the time of the splitting of the gibbons from the line of apes and humans.

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.

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.

Liz wanted to see how each gibbon interacted both with zoo visitors and other apes of its species.

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.

We spent four amazing days with the awesome gang over at Sumatra Paradise where we hiked through the jungle as we came across wild Orangutans, Thomas leaf monkeys, and gibbons.