gibbon
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The virus, according to a report in Nature, was first isolated in 1945 from a gibbon in Florida.
From BBC • Nov. 4, 2025
Skywalker gibbon couples wake up each morning and sing to each other, their voices echoing across the forest canopy of their home.
From Science Daily • Feb. 14, 2024
The park has held off on an expansion of its gibbon pen, a big project that would have given the playful primates more space, but would have also required taking out a loan.
From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2023
Playing on an iPhone, my hand rarely left the screen throughout the 60-minute-or-so experience, and it was always a joy to direct my gibbon to flip or slide through the colorfully inviting images.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2022
The gibbon of the South of France was found by M. Lartet in the beginning of 1837, and determined by M. de Blainville.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
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