The secret communication of gibbons has been interpreted for the first time in a study published in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology. The research reveals the likely meaning of a number of distinct gibbon ...
Evolution
Apr 7, 2015
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Have you ever heard an opera singing ape? Researchers in Japan have discovered that singing gibbons use the same vocal techniques as professional soprano singers. The study, published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 23, 2012
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An international team of scientists has found one of the rarest and least known primates in Borneo, Miller's Grizzled Langur, a species which was believed to be extinct or on the verge of extinction. The team's findings, ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 20, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Differences in the way male and female learning has evolved have been revealed by new research into gibbons, conducted by the University of Abertay Dundee.
Plants & Animals
Mar 1, 2011
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German scientists said on Tuesday they had discovered a new rare and endangered ape species in the tropical rainforests between Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia by its distinctive song.
Plants & Animals
Sep 21, 2010
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(AP) -- One by one, seven slithering Burmese pythons were dumped into a snake pit surrounded by 400 feet of reinforced fence at the Savannah River Ecology Lab in South Carolina.
Ecology
Jun 24, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Queensland developmental psychologists have taken a step into our evolutionary past by studying gibbons.
Plants & Animals
Mar 4, 2009
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Valentine's day is over but love's call lingers: the Skywalker gibbons' mating song, scientists reported this week, has revealed a previously unknown population—the largest in the world—of the endangered primate in the ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 17, 2024
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Many captive gibbons kept in zoos and rescue centers have been seized from illegal pet trade, private collectors, and plantations where their natural habitats are getting destroyed.
Plants & Animals
Dec 20, 2021
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We have discovered previously unappreciated differences between some male and female gibbons and siamang that could give us new clues about how social behavior affected primate evolution.
Plants & Animals
Sep 8, 2021
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