There are about 47,000 mature pileated gibbons, an endangered species, still in the wild.

Chanee, left, and Mel at their new home on Gibbon Island at the Santa Barbara Zoo. (Courtesy photo) The Santa Barbara Zoo has welcomed two white-handed gibbons Chanee (pronounced SHAW-nee) and Mel to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Christmas came early for our gibbon family!" the Akron Zoo announced with a cute little video of this band of primates ...

At 7 years old, Holmes — one of Santa Fe College Teaching Zoo’s white-handed gibbons — is swinging into a new chapter of his life. The long-limbed ape left the teaching zoo Sept. 12 for a zoo ...

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - Meet the hoolock gibbons at the zoo! Drew and Tent live at the zoo and are different in color. “The female is this kind of tan color, and the males, when they’re born, are that ...

A Leicester geneticist working with ape specialists at Twycross Zoo has developed a test which could help preserve highly vulnerable Gibbon populations from extinction A Leicester geneticist working ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Visitors to Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo can help name two of the zoo's newest residents this summer. The zoo is asking for name suggestions for twin female white-handed gibbons that ...

Erie Zoo primates swing, climb, groom and eat outdoors and indoors in summer The Erie Zoo is home to numerous primates, including the black-handed spider monkeys, Bornean orangutans, lesser spot-nosed ...

The animal is currently classified as endangered ...