By Shreya Dasgupta Gibbons, commonly called lesser apes, aren’t as well-known as some of their great ape cousins like ...

Core areas represent small regions within animal home-ranges intensively used during a given period of time. We assessed the quality of core areas relative to the rest of the home-ranges (i.e., ...

Understanding the ecological interactions between plant reproductive strategies and frugivore feeding behavior can offer insight into the maintenance of tropical forest biodiversity. We examined the ...

THE readers of Mr. Mivart's communication in NATURE for April 20, on the affinity of the Hylobates genus of ape to the human species, may be interested to learn that the fact was well known to the ...

China's fauna exhibits a unique diversity of apes. Unfortunately, the apes are more strongly endangered by extinction in China than in any other country. A research team assembled by anthropologists ...

Scientists sequencing the genes of white-handed gibbons of the Malaysian subspecies (Hylobates lar lar) have discovered unusual mutations that hint at the existence of a separately evolving population ...

There were 14,000 Pileated gibbons (Hylobates pileatus) in southeast Thailand in 2005, the last time a census survey was done. No one knows what those numbers look like today. The animals are falling ...

Indonesia merupakan rumah menyenangkan untuk tujuh jenis owa. Ada Hylobates moloch (owa jawa) yang tersebar di Jawa Barat dan sebagian Jawa Tengah; Hylobates lar (serudung) yang hidup di Sumatera ...

The keeping of gibbons in a captive environment and recreating an appropriate habitat is essential to enable them to exhibit species-specific behaviour. This research was designed to provide baseline ...

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Rahayu Oktaviani, pendiri Yayasan Konservasi Ekosistem Alam Nusantara (KIARA), mendapat penghargaan Whitley Awards 2025. Rahayu merupakan konservasionis yang 17 tahun mendedikasikan hidupnya untuk ...