Gibbons (White Cheeked)
Animal's Body: size, color, type of covering and special body parts.
White-cheeked gibbons are 18 to 25 inches tall and weigh about 15 to 20 pounds.
White cheeked gibbons males are black with white patches.
Females are buff or golden. Babies are buff-colored when born. They turn black after about six months.
Gibbons have hands and feet that have thumbs. They have no tail, and their arms are longer than their legs.
White cheeked gibbons are found in tropical rain forests and monsoon forests in southeast Asia. They are found in the countries of Laos, Vietnam, and southern China.
White cheeked gibbons like to live in trees.
Gibbons do not build nests like the great apes.
White cheeked gibbons eat fruit and leaves. They also eat insects and spiders.
Gibbons sleep sitting up with their arms wrapped around their knees and their head tucked into their lap.
White cheeked gibbons like to swing from branches in trees. They move and eat in the upper and middle levels of the rainforest canopy and almost never come down to the ground.
Gibbons can make calls that sound like singing. A pair of gibbons may sometimes sing together!
They are endangered.
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White cheeked gibbons, http://www.mnzoo.com/animals/tropics_trail/gibbon/gibbon_3.asp, 3-18-03, and White cheeked gibbons, http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/Primates/Facts/FactSheets/Gibbons/default.cfm, viewed 4-3-2007.
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