GIBBON  , the collective See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of the smaller See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man-like apes of the Indo-See also:

• MALAY

Malay countries, all of which may be included in the single genus Hylobates . Till recently these apes have been generally included in the same See also:

• FAMILY

family (Simiidae) with the See also:

• CHIMPANZEE (Chimpanzi)

chimpanzee, See also:

• GORILLA (or PoNGO)

gorilla and orang-utan, but they are now regarded by several naturalists as representing a family by themselves—the Hylobatidae . One of the distinctive features of this family is the presence of small naked callosities on the buttocks; another being a difference in the number of vertebrae and ribs as compared with those of the Simiidae . The extreme length of the limbs and the See also:

• ABSENCE (Lat. absentia)

absence of a tail are other features of these small apes, which are thoroughly arboreal in their habits, and make the See also:

• WOODS, LEONARD (1774-1854)
• WOODS, SIR ALBERT (1816-1904)

woods resound with their unearthly cries at See also:

• NIGHT

night . In agility they are unsurpassed; in fact they are stated to be so See also:

• SWIFT
• SWIFT, JONATHAN (1667—1745)

swift in their movements as to be able to See also:

• CAPTURE (from Lat. capere, to take; Fr. prise maritime; Ger. Wegnahme)

capture birds on the wing with their paws .. When they descend to the ground—which they must often do in See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order to obtain See also:

• WATER

water—they frequently walk in the upright posture, either with the hands crossed behind the See also:

• NECK (O. Eng. hnecca; the word appears in many Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch ride, Ger. Nacken; in O. E. the common word was heals; cf. Ger. Hals)

neck, or with the knuckles resting on the ground . Their usual See also:

• FOOD
• FOOD (like the verb " to feed," from a Teutonic root, whence O. Eng. foda; cf. " fodder "; connected with Gr. lrareicOae, to feed)

food consists of leaves and fruits . See also:

• GIBBONS, GRINLING (1648-1721)
• GIBBONS, JAMES (1834– )
• GIBBONS, ORLANDO (1583-1625)

Gibbons may be divided into two See also:

• GROUPS
• GROUPS, THEORY

groups, the one represented by the siamang, Hylobates (Symphalangus) syndactylus, of See also:

• SUMATRA

Sumatra and the Malay See also:

• PENINSULA
• PENINSULA (Lat. paeninsula, from paene, almost, and insula, an island)

Peninsula, and the other by a number of closely allied See also:

• SPECIES

species . The See also:

• UNION
• UNION (known locally as Union Hill and officially as Town of Union)

union of the See also:

• INDEX

index and See also:

• MIDDLE

middle fingers by means of a See also:

• WEB (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Du. webbe, Dan. vaev, Ger. Gewebe, all from the Teutonic wabh—to weave)

web extending as far as the terminal See also:

• JOINTS

joints is the distinctive feature of the siamang, which is the largest of the See also:

• GROUP

group, and See also:

• BLACK
• BLACK, ADAM (1784-1874)
• BLACK, JEREMIAH SULLIVAN (1810–1883)
• BLACK, WILLIAM (1841-1898)

black in See also:

• COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour with a See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

white frontal See also:

• BAND

band . Black or puce-See also:

• GREY, CHARLES GREY, 2ND EARL (1764-1845)
• GREY, HENRY GREY, 3RD EARL (1802-1894)
• GREY, LADY JANE (1537-1554)
• GREY, SIR EDWARD
• GREY, SIR GEORGE (1812–1898)

grey is the prevailing colour in the second group, of which the hulock (H. hulock) of See also:

• ASSAM

Assam, H. See also:

• LAR

lar of See also:

• ARAKAN

Arakan and See also:

• PEGU

Pegu, H. entelloides of See also:

• TENASSERIM

Tenasserim (fig.), and H. agilis of Sumatra are well-known representatives . A See also:

• FEMALE

female of the See also:

• HAINAN

Hainan gibbon (H. hainanus) in confinement changed from See also:

• UNIFORM

uniform sooty-black (without the white frontal The Tenasserim Gibbon (Hylobates entelloides) . band of the black phase of the hulock) to puce-grey; but it is probable that this was only an individual, or at most a sexual, peculiarity .

The range of the genus extends from the See also:

• SOUTHERN

southern See also:

• BANK

bank of the Bramaputra in Assam to southern See also:

• CHINA

China, the Malay Peninsula, See also:

• JAVA

Java, Sumatra and See also:

• BORNEO

Borneo . (R .