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Definitions of gibbon in various dictionaries:
noun - English historian best known for his history of the Roman Empire (1737-1794)
noun - smallest and most perfectly anthropoid arboreal ape having long arms and no tail
noun - an arboreal ape
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[photo] This smallest ape lives in the forests of Indochina |
Its long arms allow it to move with great agility through the treetops |
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Any of several small arboreal apes of the genus Hylobates of southeast Asia and the East Indies, having a slender body, long arms, and no tail. |
a small, slender tree-dwelling ape with long powerful arms and loud hooting calls, native to the forests of SE Asia. |
a small ape with long arms that lives in trees in the forests of South Asia |
A small, slender tree-dwelling ape with long powerful arms and loud hooting calls, native to the forests of SE Asia. |
smallest and most perfectly anthropoid arboreal ape having long arms and no tail of southern Asia and East Indies |
English historian best known for his history of the Roman Empire (1737-1794) |
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Gibbon, OKLAHOMA, UNITED STATES |
Gibbon, WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES |
Gibbon, MINNESOTA, UNITED STATES |
Gibbon, NEBRASKA, UNITED STATES |
Gibbon, OREGON, UNITED STATES |
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Gibbons are apes in the family Hylobatidae. The family historically contained one genus, but now is split into four genera and 18 species. Gibbons occur in tropical and subtropical rainforests from eastern Bangladesh and northeast India to southern China and Indonesia (including the islands of Sumatra, Borneo, and Java). * Also called the smaller apes or lesser apes, gibbons differ from great apes (chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans, and humans) in being smaller, exhibiting low sexual dimorphism, and not making nests. In certain anatomical details, they superficially more closely resemble monkeys than great apes do, but like all apes, gibbons are tailless. Unlike most of the great apes, gibbons frequently form long-term pair bonds. Their primary mode of locomotion, brachiation, involves swinging from branch to branch for distances up to 15 m (50 ft), at speeds as high as 55 km/h (34 mph). They can also make leaps up to 8 m (26 ft), and walk bipedally with their arms raised for ba |