gibbon
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The species most similar to humans in the study is the white-handed gibbon, with a monogamy rate of 63.5%.
From Science Daily • Jan. 22, 2026
The virus, according to a report in Nature, was first isolated in 1945 from a gibbon in Florida.
From BBC • Nov. 4, 2025
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
Prentice, a lawyer and land baron, lived in a 16-room mansion near what is now the zoo with monkeys and a gibbon, whose mischief caused multiple housekeepers to quit, according to a 2009 Times article.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2022
Anthropoid apes, a class of apes, including the gorilla, chimpanzee, orang-outang, and gibbon, without tails, with semi-erect figures and long arms.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin
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