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...virtuoso of arboreal acrobatics, the gibbon is a small, flat-faced ape which inhabits southeastern Asia. It is a "key animal" in primate evolution because it is more at ease on two legs than any other ape or monkey, because of its cerebral affinities with man and the great anthropoid apes, and because of its well-developed social and monogamic habits. Yet less is known of the gibbon in its wild state than about any other primate of comparable importance. Therefore Harvard, Johns Hopkins and Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson. N. Y.) have organized an expedition to study this little...
Special attention will be paid to the behavior and physical structure of gibbons, which live in great clans in the jungles of northern Siam. There is strong evidence that man and other higher primates have evolved from a gibbonoid stock, and therefore the gibbon becomes a key animal in the interpretation of man's social and physical evolution...
Describing the gibbon, Mr. Coolidge said: "Many will remember 'Bimbo' the gibbon that made a name for himself in the film 'Chang'. Gibbons stand about three feet high and weigh about twelve pounds. The gibbon is covered with a furry coat that may vary in color from black, with white markings, to light tan or silver. . . . They have a flattened face with a human looking nose. The scientific name for the gibbon is 'Bylobates', which means treewalker. It is particularly appropriate as they swing through the trees by means of their long arms at a remarkable speed. They...
Their span of life is unknown, but a single white-handed gibbon has already lived over thirty years in the Philadelphia zoo. Only two gibbons have bred in zoos of Europe or America...
...spent 20 fruitful years in the laboratory without closing his eyes to the classics, Dr. Conant has small patience with those who complain that research must not be overemphasized at the expense of teaching. To that charge he likes to cite the account by Edward Gibbon of the Greek scholars in loth Century Constantinople...