If you’re walking through a rainforest, you might want to keep your head up. How else would you know to duck to avoid a swinging gibbon? Gibbons are playful and fun apes who live in the treetops.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists may have discovered why one of the most threatened species in the world has bounced back from the brink of extinction.

Gibbons are the smallest species of apes. These tree-dwelling primates live in the rainforests of Southeast, South, and East Asia. Gibbons are naturally playful and curious, with a high level of ...

Researchers have uncovered the skull and jaw of a now-extinct, but never-before-seen genus of gibbon, which they've named Junzi imperialis. Importantly, the remains -- which were uncovered from a ...

Gibbons effortlessly use the same techniques as professional opera singers when calling out to other animals, scientists found by listening to the squeaky songs of one of the apes on helium. The ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Honolulu Zoo has a new primate. The zoo welcomed Bono, a 42-year-old male white-handed gibbon, from the Santa Barbara Zoo. They brought in Bono to provide companionship ...

Primates are a group of mammals that includes humans and our close relatives, such as apes, monkeys and lemurs. Monkeys, such as capuchins and macaques; prosimians, like lemurs and tarsiers; lesser ...

Was it love at first sight? It’s hard to say, but the Honolulu Zoo says there are positive signs that its resident female white-handed gibbon, Japan, is taking to her new male companion, Bono, who was ...

A 6-year-old lar gibbon, a tree-dwelling primate species known for its distinctly white ringed face, now resides at the BioPark and Zoo.Named Polaris, the gibbon became friends with the other gibbon ...

From tool-using chimpanzees to puzzle-solving capuchins, the primate world is packed with surprising brainpower. But how do the planet’s cleverest monkeys and apes really compare with human intelligen ...

Forest and primates, a general introduction to the conservation of endemic primates in the Sundaic region -- Density and biomass estimates of gibbons (Hylobates muelleri) in Bornean rainforest : a ...