| Sumatran lar gibbon | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Family: | Hylobatidae |
| Genus: | Hylobates |
| Species: | H. lar |
| Subspecies: | H. l. vestitus |
| Trinomial name | |
| Hylobates lar vestitus Miller, 1942 |
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The Sumatran lar gibbon (Hylobates lar vestitus), also known as the Sumatran white-handed gibbon, is a subspecies of the lar gibbon, a primate in the Hylobatidae or gibbon family. It is native to the island of Sumatra, Indonesia[1].It shares the tree tops with orangutans which like the gibbon rarely come out of the tree due to predators like tigers and possibly sun bear.
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