Exotic pet demand is speeding up the decline of gibbons in Southeast Asia, and conservationists say the trade in baby apes is ...

Rising demand for exotic pets is pushing many gibbon species to extinction, with their strong family bonds making them especially vulnerable to the brutal trade ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aug. 22—The new pileated gibbon at the Great Bend Brit Spaugh Zoo remained out of sight of prying eyes, but her vocalizations ...

The fur coloring of the lar gibbon varies from black and dark-brown to light-brown, sandy colors. Image (C) Armathwaite Hall (with permission) The fur coloring of the lar gibbon varies from black and ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) -- Zoo Miami officials are mourning the loss of one of their oldest primates, Priscilla. Zoo officials had to make the very difficult decision to euthanize Prisilla, an endangered Lar ...

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 ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Lar gibbons typically live in groups so it’s big news that Albuquerque BioPark gibbon Sienna now has a new friend. His name is Polaris. Before Polaris arrived, Sienna has been on ...

There will be a bit more monkeying around at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium. Two lar gibbons, also known as white-handed gibbons, can now be seen on exhibit at the zoo’s Asian Forest Sanctuary. Aries, ...

Everyone needs a companion, including apes. Polaris, a 6-year-old lar gibbon, found his in fellow lar gibbon Siena, 8, at the ABQ BioPark Zoo. “He is an adorable little guy,” said Josephine Frentzel, ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) — Reid Park Zoo announced the loss of Billy the Lar Gibbon. Billy was the sixth oldest at any AZAZoo, passing away at an estimated 51-years of age. There are four gibbon species ...