Gibbons need protection from COVID-19, too
Experts studying how tourism affects wild gibbons say visitors should wear PPE masks and have health checks before visiting them.
Experts studying how tourism affects wild gibbons say visitors should wear PPE masks and have health checks before visiting them.
Plants & Animals
Sep 23, 2020
0
18
A 13-million-year-old fossil unearthed in northern India comes from a newly discovered ape, the earliest known ancestor of the modern-day gibbon. The discovery by Christopher C. Gilbert, Hunter College, fills a major void ...
Archaeology
Sep 8, 2020
0
5966
A crucial population of one of the rarest primates on the planet is holding its own in the face of multiple threats, according to the latest surveys conducted in northern Vietnam.
Plants & Animals
Oct 2, 2019
0
12
Wild gibbons living in the peat swamps of southern Borneo require between 20 and 50 hectares of forest territory for each group, making their populations particularly vulnerable to habitat loss, according to a study publishing ...
Ecology
Jul 31, 2019
0
89
Scientists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Vanderbilt University and Clark University have shed new light on the genomic foundation of the polar bear's ecological adaption by pinpointing rapid changes in the ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 17, 2019
0
107
Scientists studying bones excavated from an ancient tomb in Shaanxi Province, central China, have discovered an entirely new but already extinct genus of gibbons.
Archaeology
Jun 22, 2018
0
243
Researchers in China claim they have identified a new species of gibbon in the remote forests along its border with Burma—and have named it after Star Wars character Luke Skywalker.
Plants & Animals
Jan 11, 2017
0
4
The mystery of an outbreak of lymphoma and leukaemia 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.
Plants & Animals
Nov 17, 2016
0
2
The gibbon ape leukemia virus (GALV) is a medically important tool in cancer therapies. GALV is a retrovirus pathogenic to its host species, the southeast Asian lar gibbon (Hylobates lar) and thought to have originated from ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 26, 2016
0
0
These days, mail addressed to selected government offices gets irradiated, in order to kill any biological agents, notably anthrax spores. The downside of this is that viable spores have been needed to identify the anthrax ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 13, 2015
0
27