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Location:

Island on Children's Trail lake

Siamang Gibbon

  • Boyd (M) 4/8/1992

  • Hadiah "Haddie" (F) 1/26/2000

  • Bodie (M) 11/22/2021

Identifying Features:

  • Boyd has a sleeker coat, lighter face 

  • Haddie is shorter with a darker face

History:

  • Bodie was an unexpected surprise. 

  • Haddie has sucessfully raised young in the past, but was on birth control. Boyd & Haddie are great parents!

More Information:

  • Small bodied ape

  • Largest of the gibbons

  • Large throat sac functions as a resonance body for its very loud chorus

  • Brachiation - move from branch to branch with arms

  • Impressive sense of balance

  • Will eat more than 160 species of plants, but prefer figs and fruit

  • Padded backside for sitting in trees

  • They do NOT build nexts like large bodied apes

  • Male has fur on testicles that hangs down and looks like a tail

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