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Hylobates lar (white-handed gibbon)

Synonyms: Homo lar; Hylobates variegates; Hylobates varius

Wikipedia Abstract

The lar gibbon (Hylobates lar), also known as the white-handed gibbon, is a primate in the gibbon family, Hylobatidae. It is one of the better-known gibbons and is often seen in zoos.
View Wikipedia Record: Hylobates lar

Infraspecies

Hylobates lar carpenteri (Carpenter's Lar gibbon)
Hylobates lar entelloides (Central Lar Gibbon)
Hylobates lar lar (Malayan Lar Gibbon)
Hylobates lar vestitus (Sumatran Lar Gibbon)
Hylobates lar yunnanensis (Yunnan Lar Gibbon)

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Hylobates lar

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
48
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 5.1
EDGE Score: 3.89
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  15.014 lbs (6.81 kg)
Birth Weight [1]  307 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  70 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  10 %
Diet - Plants [2]  20 %
Forages - Arboreal [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  7 years
Male Maturity [1]  5 years
Gestation [1]  7 months 7 days
Litter Size [1]  1
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  56 years
Snout to Vent Length [4]  23 inches (59 cm)
Weaning [1]  1 year 7 months
Habitat Substrate [3]  Arboreal

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No
Sundaland Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand No

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

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Consumers

Parasitized by 
Dirofilaria digitata <Unverified Name>[9]
Dirofilaria immitis (Heartworm)[9]
Taenia solium (pork tapeworm)[9]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 4Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 5SELECTION AND TREATMENT OF FOOD PLANTS BY WHITE-HANDED GIBBONS (HYLOBATES LAR) IN KHAO YAI NATIONAL PARK, THAILAND, Claudia Whitington and Uthai Treesucon, NAT. HIST. BULL. SIAM SOC. 39: lll-122, 1991
♦ 6Fruit Preferences of Four Sympatric Primate Species at Ketambe, Northern Sumatra, Indonesia, Peter S. Ungar, International Journal of Primatology, Vol. 16, No. 2, 1995
♦ 7AN ASSESSMENT OF FOOD OVERLAP BETWEEN GIBBONS AND HORNBILLS, Chuti-on Kanwatanakid-Savini and Pilai Poonswad, Tommaso Savini, THE RAFFLES BULLETIN OF ZOOLOGY 2009 57(1): 189–198
♦ 8"Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review", MIKE SHANAHAN, SAMSON SO, STEPHEN G. COMPTON and RICHARD CORLETT, Biol. Rev. (2001), 76, pp. 529–572
♦ 9Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0