International Gibbon Day: Spotlighting the overlooked, underprotected ‘lesser apes’ Gibbons, commonly called lesser apes, aren’t as well-known as some of their great ape cousins like chimpanzees or gorillas. But the lives of these highly arboreal primates are no less fascinating. The...

🌿 #InternationalGibbonDay
Swing high, sing loud! 🎶

20 gibbon species exist. All on the IUCN Red List, meaning threatened with extinction. They all need forests, space, and our care. Let’s keep their songs alive 💚

#SaveTheGibbons
#LesserApes
#IUCN
#TrueBrachiation

Yesterday we celebrated #internationalgibbonday. I work with 6 gibbons (3 pileated gibbons and 3 northern white-cheeked gibbons). Meet Suzette and her one-year old baby 💚

Resharing for #InternationalGibbonDay:

Resharing for #InternationalGibbonDay:

Resharing for #InternationalGibbonDay:

Resharing for #InternationalGibbonDay:

Today is #InternationalGibbonDay. You can find Vinh, our Critically Endangered white-cheeked gibbon, and Briscoe, our Endangered buff-cheeked gibbon, swinging through Toyota Elephant Passage. And don’t forget to visit Liam and Lola, our Endangered siamang pair, in Primate Panorama!🐒

Two gibbons (a ape) one black, one while, sitting in a tree.

#InternationalGibbonDay is dedicated to raising awareness of our overlooked, under-protected "lesser" apes. This Hainan gibbon #SciArt is from the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1905). This species is now critically endangered. www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31887889 🧪 📖 🌱

Wild gibbons plan their travel pattern according to food types of breakfast | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Planning for the future is a complex skill that is often considered uniquely human. This cognitive ability has never been investigated in wild gibbons (Hylobatidae). Here we evaluated the movement patterns from sleeping trees to out-of-sight breakfast ...

Check out this 2023 ProcRSocB paper to learn more about gibbons and their travel plans:
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

#AnimalCognitionFunFacts #InternationalGibbonDay #Gibbons

October 24 is International Gibbon Day. Animal Cognition Fun Facts by Animal Cognition Network.

October 24 is International Gibbon Day!

Did you know gibbons plan their travel based on what type of food they want to eat later in the day?

#AnimalCognitionFunFacts #InternationalGibbonDay #Gibbons

Today we celebrate two icons of biodiversity:
The graceful and endangered freshwater dolphin.
The acrobatic and vocal gibbon.
From river currents to forest canopies, these species show us why conservation matters everywhere.
#FreshwaterDolphinDay #InternationalGibbonDay

Gibbon Mum Pushes Dad So He Stops Hitting Baby #InternationalGibbonDay Watch here:

🌳 Keep me in the canopy! 🌳
It’s #InternationalGibbonDay! Gibbons are endangered acrobats of the forest who sing every morning 🎶
Support the Captive Primate Safety Act to help end the primate pet trade.
#InternationalGibbonDay #PrimatesAreNotPets

It's #InternationalGibbonDay 🐵🐒 #Gibbons sing sunrise duets 🎶 Their swinging arms make them the fastest moving #apes, as fast a racehorse galloping! #Gibbon species are threatened by #deforestation: #palmoil #mining #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/01/29/northern-white-cheeked-gibbon-nomascus-leucogenys/

It's #InternationalGibbonDay 🐵🐒 #Gibbons sing sunrise duets 🎶 Their swinging arms make them the fastest moving #apes, as fast a racehorse galloping! #Gibbon species are threatened by #deforestation: #palmoil #mining #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/01/29/northern-white-cheeked-gibbon-nomascus-leucogenys/

It's #InternationalGibbonDay 🐵🐒 #Gibbons sing sunrise duets 🎶 Their swinging arms make them the fastest moving #apes, as fast a racehorse galloping! #Gibbon species are threatened by #deforestation: #palmoil #mining #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/01/29/northern-white-cheeked-gibbon-nomascus-leucogenys/

It's #InternationalGibbonDay 🐵🐒 #Gibbons sing sunrise duets 🎶 Their swinging arms make them the fastest moving #apes, as fast a racehorse galloping! #Gibbon species are threatened by #deforestation: #palmoil #mining #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/01/29/northern-white-cheeked-gibbon-nomascus-leucogenys/

It's #InternationalGibbonDay 🐵🐒 #Gibbons sing sunrise duets 🎶 Their swinging arms make them the fastest moving #apes, as fast a racehorse galloping! #Gibbon species are threatened by #deforestation: #palmoil #mining #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife palmoildetectives.com/2021/01/29/n...

Cropped image from a book, showing an engraving of a gibbon leaping with its arms stretched in front of it, and its eyes facing towards you. It appears to have leapt from a tree, which is in the background, in front of a forest landscape. The caption underneath reads: 'Silvery Gibbon. - Hylobates Leuciscus'.

And because we had too many good gibbons to choose from, here's a bonus gibbon - in flight!

This engraving of a gibbon comes from 'The Illustrated Natural History' (1863) by J. G. Wood.

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#InternationalGibbonDay #GibbonDay #RareBooks

Cropped image from a book, showing a colour illustration of a 'Long armed Gibbon' and a 'Little Gibbon' (as described in the caption underneath. They are standing next to each on their back legs, almost standing upright. The 'Long armed Gibbon' appears to be turning away from the 'Little Gibbon'. The 'Little Gibbon' is waving one arm at the 'Long armed Gibbon', as if trying to get its attention (or annoy it!). Behind the two gibbons is a landscape coloured in green, yellow and blue.

Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the gibbons, for today is their special day!

To celebrate International Gibbon Day, here is an illustration of two gibbons from the book 'Animated Nature' (1828) by Georges-Louis Leclerc.

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10月24日は国際テナガザルの日。

東南アジア中心に生息するテナガザルのほとんどの種が、人間の経済活動に追いやられて絶滅が危惧されています。
彼らは「歌う」ことでコミュニケーションをはかります。
愛を歌い、怒りを歌い、怖れを歌う。

かれらは、今、何を歌うのか？

刺繍のフクロテナガザルをアップ。
この子は、来年３月の展示にも連れていきます。
どうぞご高覧ください。

#国際テナガザルの日 #InternationalGibbonDay
#artembroidery #textileembroidery #textileart
#Siamang #フクロテナガザル

official auction photo: brown stoneware sculpture of a seated gibbon mother holding her baby, on brown wood base, front profile view on white background

For #InternationalGibbonDay :
Gunnar Nylund (Sweden, 1904-1997)
Rörstrand sculpture: #Gibbon mother and baby, 1940s
Chamotte stoneware, H 24.5cm
auctionet.com/en/1990261-s...

Happy #InternationalGibbonDay

Happy #InternationalGibbonDay
Vor einigen Wochen habe ich erstmals einen #Gibbon #SongContest erlebt. Geisterhaft, laut und irgendwie nicht von dieser Welt.
Darüber zu schreiben, ist sicherlich eine Kunst

Guardians of the Gibbons: animal-human harmony hangs in the balance For over a century the villagers of Barekuri, north-east India’s biodiversity hotspot, have coexisted with the country’s only ape species, the hoolock gibbon. But this harmony stands in fragile ecolog...

For #InternationalGibbonDay a documentary about a villager's relationship with a family of hoolock gibbons living in a fragmented patch of forest in a village in #Assam #India Explains what the threats to the #gibbons mean for them in reality. Well worth a watch. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Happy #InternationalGibbonDay !
24th October
Jakuchu Ito (伊藤若冲)
“Gibbons Catching the Moon
(猿猴捕月図)” 1770

Digitized image of a cropped detail of a single gibbon from the following work: Title: Gibbons in a Landscape Artist: Sesson Shūkei 雪村周継 (c. 1504 – c. 1589) Period: Muromachi period (1392–1573) Date: c. 1570 Culture: Japan Medium: Pair of six-panel screens; ink on paper [monochrome] Dimensions: Image (each screen): 62 in. x 11 ft. 5 in. (157.5 x 348 cm) Metropolitan Museum of Art collection 1992.8.1,.2

left screen 6 panels monochrome

right screen 6 panels monochrome

For #InternationalGibbonDay: Gibbons in a Landscape, 2 x 6 panel screens by S. Shūkei, Japan, c.1570.
Gibbons aren't native to Japan; iconography adopted from Chinese art, especially Muqi paintings & "gibbon grasping at reflection of moon in water" (a Zen motif).
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

Conservation Evidence: Evidence Data

on #InternationalGibbonDay here is a range of studies testing a wide range of conservation actions on gibbons. Many more studies welcome.
www.conservationevidence.com/data/studies

Conservation Evidence: Evidence Data

To help those wishing to conserve wonderful gibbons on #InternationalGibbonDay here are 20 papers testing means of conserving them. https://bit.ly/2FUiNM8