Silvery Gibbon (Hylobates moloch)

Silvery Gibbon (Hylobates moloch)

Gibbons are apes not monkeys.

Silvery Gibbon (Hylobates moloch)

Their long arms and hands are perfectly adapted to life in the forest canopy.

Silvery Gibbon (Hylobates moloch)

The Silvery Gibbon has already lost 99% of its original rainforest habitat and the pressure on the remaing forest is extreme.

Silvery Gibbon (Hylobates moloch)

Whilst Java's human population is over 120 million, Silvery Gibbons number less then 2000 spread over just a few isolated patches of forest.

Silvery Gibbon (Hylobates moloch)

Silvery Gibbon (Hylobates moloch)