White-cheeked Gibbon

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Description

Range & Habitat

Found In: Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Vietnam and possibly extinct in China (Yunnan – Native)

Behavior

Diet

Mainly frugivorous (eats fruit); Also eats leaves and flowers

Conservation

Primary threats are deforestation through agricultural intrusion into mountainous areas and fuel-wood and timber extraction from remaining forests.

Fun Facts

• Gibbons are strictly arboreal, living in tall, heavily degraded evergreen and semi-evergreen forest.

Virginia Zoo Animals

Male: Dexter

Female: Henley