Hylobates lar   Kaeng Krachan WB🐒

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SpeciesPrimatesHylobatidae
Primates

🐒Lar Gibbon

Hylobates lar (Linnaeus, 1771)

De withandgibbon of lar (Hylobates lar) is een mensaap uit de familie van de gibbons (Hylobatidae). De soort is een van de bekendere soorten gibbons, en is vaak te zien in dierentuinen. In het wild komt hij voor in bosrijke gebieden in Yunnan (China), Birma, Thailand, Malakka en Sumatra (zie de verspreidingskaart).

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Also called
White-handed Gibbon, Common Gibbon, White-handed gibbon
Conservation status
ENEndangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
6.19 kg
Body length
0.59 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
57 years
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Everything we know about the Lar Gibbon

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
6.19 kg
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  • 6.81 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Body length
0.59 m
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Brain mass
107 g
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Maximum lifespan
57 years
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  • 56 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Generation length
15 years
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Age at maturity
11 years
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Gestation
216 days
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  • 217 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Litter size
1
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Trophic level
Herbivore
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Activity cycle
Diurnal
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Home range
0.32 km²
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Population density
9.4 per km²
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Volume l
6.2 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Lar Gibbon yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderPrimates
  5. ›familyHylobatidae
  6. ›genusHylobates
  7. ›speciesHylobates lar
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. infraorderSimiiformes
  3. familyHylobatidae
  4. genusHylobates
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderEuarchontoglires
  11. suborderHaplorrhini
  12. infraorderSimiiformes
  13. familyHylobatidae
  14. genusHylobates
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What it eats
fruit70%
leaves, roots and other plants20%
insects and other invertebrates10%
In other languages
Weißhandgibbon (de), Hylobates lar (es), Gibbon à mains blanches (fr), 白掌长臂猿 (zh), Gibbon białoręki (pl), 흰손긴팔원숭이 (ko) … and 25 more languages
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