- Hoolock Gibbon is India’s only ape species.
- It is also known as ‘Hoolocks or White browed Gibbons’ and 2nd largest of the Gibbon species.
- It is among the of the world’s 25 most endangered primates from Asia.
- Family – Hylobatidae.
- Physical attributes – Size 60 to 90 cm weigh 6 to 9 kg.
- Diet – Mainly of fruits, insects and leaves.
- Behaviour – Live together in monogamous pairs, stake out a territory.
- Calls serve to locate family members and ward off other gibbons from their territory.
- Geographical distribution – Extending from Assam to Myanmar, some populations (in each case few hundred animals), also in the eastern Bangladesh and in southwest China.
- In India - Restricted to the southern bank of the Brahmaputra River and east of the Dibang River across 7 northeastern States – Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, and Tripura.
- Diurnal and arboreal (living in tress), brachiating through the trees with their long arms.
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