In its latest study, the Hyderabad-based CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology has shared details on the population of western hoolock gibbons in India’s North-eastern region. The study found ...

A male hoolock gibbon. | Miraj Hussain [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)] In Phlangwanbroi, a Khasi tribal village in Meghalaya abutting ...

The primate was discovered in the forests of the Gaoligong Mountains, which straddle the border between southwest China and northern Myanmar. The species represents a new addition to the genus of ...

The Hoolock gibbons, the only ape species found in the sub-continent, were stranded due to increasing deforestation in the area. The Hoolock gibbons, the only ape species found in the sub-continent, ...

Fourteen years after reports noting that India has two separate species of the gibbon – the hoolock gibbon and the eastern hoolock gibbon – a latest genetic analysis has now proved that there is only ...

Hoolock gibbon habitat has declined in the past few decades, but enough suitable patches exist today to guarantee the long-term survival of the genus if properly conserved. Particular populations are ...

Lawachara National Park, a protected forest spanning 1,250 hectares in Moulvibazar district, is home to rich biodiversity and is one of the last remaining strongholds of the critically endangered ...

A lone Hoolock gibbon has been spotted unusually high in Arunachal Pradesh. Caught on camera traps in Namdapha National Park, the male ape was found at 2,267 meters above sea level—its highest-ever ...

Hosting one of India’s most precious and unique ecosystems, Nokrek National Park is part of the Nokrek Biosphere Reserve and a natural treasure of Meghalaya. It is known for its endangered Hoolock ...

Environmentalists and nature lovers have expressed concern over the dwindling population of the hoolock gibbon at Barekuri in Upper Assam’s Tinsukia district. Earlier, Barekuri had a population of 37 ...

Forest officials in Arunachal Pradesh released a family of three hoolock gibbons in Mehao Wildlife Sanctuary in lower Dibang Valley district. A team of veterinarians and biologists from the ...

We have a unique animal in Dhaka Zoo. If you are passing by it anytime during the day or residing within two kilometres of it, you are not going to miss out on the unusual ear-deafening duetting sound ...