White-handed Gibbon (Hylobates lar)

About White-handed Gibbon (Hylobates lar)

• Kingdom: Animals
• Phylum: Chordates
• Class: Mammals
• Order: Primates
• Family: Hylobatidae

This species is found in the tropical rainforest, where it occupies only the upper canopy. These gibbons rarely, if ever, descend to the forest floor. This fact alone makes them very hard to study.

Habitat Regions: tropical ; terrestrial

Terrestrial Biomes: rainforest

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