4163. WILDLIFE SINGAPORE. Buff-cheeked gibbon, White-handed gibbon (Lar Gibbon, Hylobates lar)

  WILDLIFE SINGAPORE. Buff-cheeked gibbon, White-handed gibbon (Lar Gibbon, Hylobates lar)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WILDLIFE SINGAPORE. 
Educational Video sponsored by
Toa Payoh Vets.

1 JULY 2025.
Singapore Zoo at around 10.30am 
Gibbons in the Singapore Zoo.

This video shows 2 species of gibbons.
The female buff-cheeked gibbon and the 
white_handed gibbon (Lar Gibbon). The 
former has a beige body while the latter is black.

The buff-cheeked gibbon is a species of
gibbon native to Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia

The Lar gibbon, also known as the white-handed gibbon
is an endangered primate in the gibbon family.

It inhabits the tropical rainforests of China, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia

 

Gibbons are arboreal. They rarely move

around the ground. They can swing at 

35 miles per hour for up to 50 feet 

in between swings. 

 

The gibbon creates synchronized songs 

or duets in the mornings. Listen to their 

voices in this video.
They are thought to be communications,

for marking territories and resources 

or between potential mates. The duets 

comprise species-specific characteristics 

which are inherited, not learned.