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Synonyms edward gibbon
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Synonyms hylobates lar
Type of lesser ape

Examples of gibbon

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Gibbon calls don't bother with such complexity, but neither do soprano singers.
From the newscientist.com
Gibbon maintains that the marriages of Valentinian were conducted successively.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Apes, in particular the gibbon, are the consummate below branch arm-swingers.
From the newscientist.com
Male gibbon and female gibbons are identical in size and they mate for life.
From the guardian.co.uk
They also extracted samples of mitochondrial gibbon DNA in 22 of the the 24 locations.
From the time.com
Gibbon, a former artilleryman, responded with fire from Battery B, 4th U.S. Artillery.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Hainan black crested gibbon is one of the world's most endangered primates.
From the en.wikipedia.org
He was also a keen swimmer and climbed trees with the agility of a gibbon.
From the au.news.yahoo.com
Other primate genomes underway include the marmoset, gibbon and gorilla.
From the sciencedaily.com
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  • English historian best known for his history of the Roman Empire (1737-1794)
  • Smallest and most perfectly anthropoid arboreal ape having long arms and no tail; of southern Asia and East Indies
  • Gibbons are apes in the family Hylobatidae . The family is divided into four genera based on their diploid chromosome number: Hylobates (44), Hoolock (38), Nomascus (52), and Symphalangus (50). ...
  • Gibbon (Martin Blank), is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics mutant, associated with Spider-Man.
  • Notable people named Gibbons include:
  • (Gibbons (automobile)) The Gibbons was a British 4 wheeled cyclecar made from 1917 to 1929 by engineering pattern makers Gibbons and Moore of Chadwell Heath, Essex. The first car was made in 1914 but production did not start until 1917. By 1920 the car was described as the MkIII.
  • A small ape of the family Hylobatidae with long limbs, which it uses to travel through rainforests by swinging from branch to branch
  • (Gibbons) Euell (1962), Stalking the Wild Asparagus, New York: David McKay.
  • (gibbons) The smallest apes, natives of Asia; arboreal and territorial.