Virtual Non-Human Primate Zoo

SCIENTIFIC CLASSIFICATION:

  Order: Primates

    Suborder: Haplorrhini

      Infraorder: Simiiformes

        Parvorder: Catarrhini

          Superfamily: Hominoidea

            Family: Hylobatidae

                Genus: Nomascus

                  Species: concolor

 

COMMON NAME:  Black-Crested Gibbon

 

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:  Southeast Asia

 

HABITAT:  Tropical Rainforests

 

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:

  • dark brown or black dense hair

  • hairless face

  • hands and feet are very much like humans

 

DIET:  Omnivore

• fruit

• leaves

• spiders

• insects

 

LOCOMOTION TYPE:  Brachiation

The species is extremely acrobatic in trees.

 

SOCIAL GROUP ORGANIZATION:  

Social group consists of small groups, monogamous adult male and female and their offspring.  

 

PARENTAL CARE:  Mother is primary caregiver

 

COMMUNICATION:

•   territorial hooting calls

•   menacing gestures

 

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES:  

Almost no predators can catch them.

 

ENDANGERMENT STATUS:  Critically Endangered

The biggest threat to this species is habitat destruction and hunting for food. Trapping these gibbons for the pet trade is also a problem.

 

To learn more about Nomascus concolor, visit the following websites:

1. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/apes/gibbon/index.shtml

2. http://www.arkive.org/black-crested-gibbon/nomascus-concolor/image-G119026.html

3. http://www.animalinfo.org/species/primate/hyloconc.htm

4. http://eol.org/pages/326452/overview#Taxonomy

5. http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/full/39775/0

 

Information and photographs compiled by C. Azpeitia and P. Saiza.