White Handed Gibbon
White Handed Gibbon
Valley Zoo School
Edmonton Catholic Schools
Location:
The white-handed gibbon is found in different parts of southeast Asia, the countries of Burma, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, North Sumatra, and Thailand. This species is found in old growth tropical rain forests, semideciduous monsoon forests and tropical evergreen forests. They prefer the covered closed canopy but during feeding may climb to highest emergent crowns of trees or descend to clumps of bamboo and low bushes, or to drink.
Food:
The lar gibbon is one of the pickiest eaters in the primate world. The white-handed gibbons are mainly frugivores, preferring fruits high in sugar such as figs. Gibbons are omnivores (eating plants and meat). They forage for food in the forests during the day, eating fruit, and they may visit 16 or more widely spaced food trees in a day's foraging. About 75% of their diet is fruit, but they also eat leaves, flowers, seeds, tree bark, and tender plant shoots. Sometimes they also eat insects, spiders, snails, bird eggs, and small birds. Zoo diet is primate chow, fruits, vegetables and browse.
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