White-cheekedGibbon

Distribution:South East Asia

Habitat:Forest

Weight:5.6kg - 6.8kg

Diet:Omnivorous

Fruit, leaves, insects.

Common Name: White-cheeked GibbonScientific Name: Hylobates leucogenys

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White-cheeked gibbons are small apes and like all apes,including Chimpanzees and Gorilla they do not have a tail. A tailis one feature that makes it easy to tell the difference betweenapes and monkeys.

They have long arms that they use to hang from branches andswing through trees. This swinging movement is calledbrachiation.

White-cheeked Gibbons are sexually dichromatic which meansthat males and females are different colours. Males are blackand, as their name suggests, they have white cheeks. Femalesare golden or buff coloured.

White-cheeked Gibbons live in South East Asia, in Laos andVietnam where they inhabit tropical evergreen forest.

Like all gibbons, the main part of White-cheeked Gibbons diet ismainly fruit. As with other gibbons they will supplement their dietwith insects

White cheeked gibbons live in monogamous pairs, which meansthat a male and a female live together andrear their offspring. Breeding occursthroughout the year with thefemales gestation period(pregnancy) being about 200days.

Offspring live with their parentsuntil they are around 8, when theyleave to find a mate of their own. Eachfamily lives on a territory that theydefend from their neighbours through loudcalling displays that are performed mostmornings.