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Welcome back ladies and gentleman.\u00a0 I am having some major issues with my internet right now so I hopefully I will be able to post today’s Wild Fact.\u00a0 Even if it doesn’t post properly, I will be sure to phone each and every one of you to tell you about today’s fact.\u00a0 See, that’s how excited I am to talk about an endangered ape called a Gibbon.\u00a0 These little guys belong to the Lesser Apes family which is closely related to the Greater Apes.\u00a0 Why is this interesting?\u00a0 Well, the Greater Apes family members include chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and of course, humans. Yep, the Gibbon pictured above might just be at your next family reunion.\u00a0 Actually, that is probably just your hairy Uncle Ned stuffing his face with the free food but you can see the resemblance, can’t you?<\/p>\n
So what are some of the traits that separate the gibbon from their greater ape cousins? Well for starters, they are smaller, the males and females look similar, they don’t make nests and they look more like a monkey than the Great Apes do.\u00a0 Aren’t you glad you are part of the Great Ape family? Otherwise you would resemble a monkey.\u00a0 If you want to get a photo of the gibbon for your family tree than you had better be quick with the camera.\u00a0 They are excellent at swinging through the tree tops.\u00a0 In fact they can swing up to 15 m (50′) at speeds as high as 56 km\/h (35 mph).\u00a0 And if they are really creeped out that their family member is taking pictures of them they can always decide to leap over 8 m (26′).\u00a0 The gibbon has been identified as the fastest and most agile of the tree-dwelling, non-flying mammal species.\u00a0 So, good luck catching these little guys!<\/p>\n
Since the gibbon lives high in the trees they have very few natural predators.\u00a0 It will usually be a leopard, snake or bird of prey that will pluck a gibbon from their comfy treetop home.\u00a0 Even with few predators most gibbon species are classified as threatened or endangered.\u00a0 Once again the need for settled land is displacing an animal from its natural habitat.\u00a0 This habitat destruction is pushing this ape to extinction.<\/p>\n
Gibbon Fast Fact –<\/strong> The gibbon has very long arms and in some cases even longer than their legs.\u00a0 These long arms are great for providing balance as they are walking through the trees.\u00a0 The gibbon is able to walk on two legs using their long arms for balance.\u00a0 I guess they are the tight-rope walkers of the forest.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Welcome back ladies and gentleman.\u00a0 I am having some major issues with my internet right now so I hopefully I will be able to post today’s Wild Fact.\u00a0 Even if it doesn’t post properly, I will be sure to phone each and every one of you to tell you about today’s fact.\u00a0 See, that’s how excited I am to talk about an endangered ape called a Gibbon.\u00a0 These little guys belong to the Lesser Apes family which is closely related to the Greater Apes.\u00a0 Why is this interesting?\u00a0 Well, the Greater Apes family members include chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and of <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4024],"tags":[348,884,881,885,883,882,4025],"yoast_head":"\n
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