Hylobates lar   Kaeng Krachan WB🐒

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SpeciesPrimatesHylobatidae
Primates

🐒Lar Gibbon

Hylobates lar (Linnaeus, 1771)

Lar (Hylobates lar) är en art i primatfamiljen gibboner. Den finns ofta i djurparker, och kallas också vanlig gibbon eller vithandad gibbon.

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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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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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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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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
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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