Primate

Yellow-cheeked Gibbon

The Southern Yellow-cheeked Gibbon, with its silky fur and distinctive ochre-colored cheeks, moves gracefully through the canopies of the tropical forests of Southeast Asia, embodying agility and harmony within its arboreal habitat.

Extraordinary agility.

Remarkably lengthy arms and hands

The Southern Yellow-cheeked Gibbon, like all gibbon species, is remarkable for the length of its arms and hands, proportionate to its body and legs: it lives in the primary forests at low and medium altitudes, moving with extraordinary agility from branch to branch in the canopy, rarely coming to the ground.

Active during the day and primarily feeding on fruits and shoots, the Yellow-cheeked Gibbon is monogamous: it forms a stable family group with a female and 2 or 3 offspring, ruling over a territory of a few square kilometers. After a long gestation of 7 months, a young one is born, nursed by the mother and raised by both parents: the young one sometimes stays for 6 to 8 years before leaving the group to start a new family.

At birth, this monkey has a light yellow fur that turns black after a few months, except for the cheeks that remain yellow. However, the fur of sexually mature females turns yellowish again, with a small crest of black hairs, in harmony with the coloration of the fur of future babies.”