The black crested gibbon is native to China, northern Vietnam, and Laos. They’re typically between 17-21 inches long and weigh between 15 to 22 pounds. The gibbon is a forest dweller with long arms.

Gibbons move with rhythm and intention. ... A crested gibbon’s performance “may not necessarily exhibit all of the properties that we commonly associate with human dance,” Dr. Patel-Grosz said.

But crested gibbons, which are lesser apes, have shown evidence of something that looks like dance in previous research. Related: Strange love: 13 animals with truly weird courtship rituals ...

In the remote rainforests of Vietnam, the “king of the swingers” was thought to have gone extinct. Cao vit gibbons, or eastern black crested gibbons, have maintained incredibly small ...

Female crested gibbons display jerky, almost geometric patterns of movement. Researchers from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU), Oslo in Norway and Paris have studied these conspicuous ...

By analyzing close-range recordings of captive crested gibbons, the team set out to focus on three key areas that have been overlooked in previous studies into gibbon dancing: grouping structure ...

In the remote rainforests of Vietnam, the “king of the swingers” was thought to have gone extinct. Cao vit gibbons, or eastern black crested gibbons, have maintained incredibly small ...

In the remote rainforests of Vietnam, the “king of the swingers” was thought to have gone extinct. Cao vit gibbons, or eastern black crested gibbons, have maintained incredibly small ...

In the remote rainforests of Vietnam, the “king of the swingers” was thought to have gone extinct. Cao vit gibbons, or eastern black crested gibbons, have maintained incredibly small ...

The black crested gibbon is native to China, northern Vietnam, and Laos. They’re typically between 17-21 inches long and weigh between 15 to 22 pounds.

According to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, the black crested gibbon is now a Critically Endangered species. It’s unfortunate, considering the gibbon is one of the world’s most ...