Yellow-cheeked Gibbon

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Yellow-cheeked Gibbon[1]
(left: male right: female)
(left: male right: female)
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Superfamily: Hominoidea
Family: Hylobatidae
Genus: Nomascus
Species: N. gabriellae
Binomial name
Nomascus gabriellae
(Thomas, 1909)

The Yellow-cheeked Gibbon (Nomascus gabriellae), also called the Yellow-cheeked Crested Gibbon, the Golden-cheeked Crested Gibbon or the Buffed-cheeked Gibbon, is a species of gibbon native to Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.[1]

The Yellow-cheeked Gibbon is born black, and males carry this colouring through their lifespan and have the distinguishing golden cheeks;f emales however, turn blond at sexual maturity.[citation needed]

This diurnal and arboreal gibbon lives in primary tropical rainforest, foraging for fruits, using braciation to move through the trees.[citation needed]

The Yellow-cheeked Gibbon, like all gibbon species, has a unique song which is usually initiated by the male.[citation needed] The female will then join in and sing with the male to reinforce their bond and announce to other gibbons that they are a pair in a specific territory.[citation needed] The male usually finishes the song after the female has stopped singing.[citation needed]

Little is known about this species in the wild, but it is thought that it has a life span of approximately 46 years.[citation needed]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Groves, Colin (16 November 2005). in Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds): Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 180. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. 
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