gibbon
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The virus, according to a report in Nature, was first isolated in 1945 from a gibbon in Florida.
From BBC • Nov. 4, 2025
Skywalker gibbon couples wake up each morning and sing to each other, their voices echoing across the forest canopy of their home.
From Science Daily • Feb. 14, 2024
The park has held off on an expansion of its gibbon pen, a big project that would have given the playful primates more space, but would have also required taking out a loan.
From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2023
“In the beginning, ‘Gibbon’ was about two gibbon friends.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2022
The skull and other bones met with in the South of France belong to a gibbon, or one of the tailless apes, which stand next in the scale of organization to the orang.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
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