{"id":369755,"date":"2026-08-18T14:10:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T08:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=369755"},"modified":"2026-08-18T14:10:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T08:40:59","slug":"lar-gibbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/lar-gibbon\/","title":{"rendered":"Lar Gibbon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-box-green\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>News: <\/strong>Actor Chiyaan Vikram faced criticism from wildlife activists after a video showed him interacting with an endangered Lar Gibbon.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">About Lar Gibbon<\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 282px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/neprimateconservancy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/White-handed-gibbon-May-2026-768x768.jpg?resize=282%2C282&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Lar Gibbon\" width=\"282\" height=\"282\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: New England Primate Conservancy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <strong>Lar gibbon<\/strong>, or the\u00a0<strong>White-handed Gibbon,<\/strong>\u00a0is one of the<strong> most well-known gibbon species in Malaysia.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Scientific name<\/strong>: Its scientific name is<strong> Hylobates lar.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Family<\/strong>: It is primate in the <strong>gibbon family, Hylobatidae.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"12\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Habitat:<\/strong> It is found in<strong> dipterocarp, submontane, lowland, mixed deciduous, and bamboo forests.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Distribution:<\/strong> It\u00a0is found in <strong>Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Characteristics:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Appearance:<\/strong> The <strong>fur coloring of the lar gibbon<\/strong> varies from black and dark-brown to light-brown, sandy colors.\n<ul>\n<li>The hands and feet are white-colored. It get their name<strong> from the white-coloured hair<\/strong> that covers their hands and feet.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>adults have a ring of white hair<\/strong> around their hairless faces.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Both males and females can have fur colouring<\/strong> varying from creamy to brown or black.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Behaviour:<\/strong> It <strong>spends most of its life above the ground.<\/strong> Hence, it is equipped with super-long arms and hooked hands.\n<ul>\n<li>This <strong>helps the gibbon to swing effortlessly and fluidly<\/strong> between branches in search of food, especially figs.<\/li>\n<li>It also <strong>loves vocalising and communicate<\/strong> using songs, performed solo or as a couple.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Diet<\/strong>: It feeds <strong>upon Fruits, leaves, flowers, and insects.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Threats:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Habitat loss and fragmentation<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Forest clearance for livestock grazing, <\/strong>agriculture, new settlements, monoculture plantations, roads, and illegal pet trade<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation status:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>IUCN:<\/strong> <strong>Endangered<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Actor Chiyaan Vikram faced criticism from wildlife activists after a video showed him interacting with an endangered Lar Gibbon. About Lar Gibbon The Lar gibbon, or the\u00a0White-handed Gibbon,\u00a0is one of the most well-known gibbon species in Malaysia. Scientific name: Its scientific name is Hylobates lar.\u00a0 Family: It is primate in the gibbon family, Hylobatidae.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/lar-gibbon\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lar Gibbon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,12039,11834],"tags":[11872,10500],"class_list":["post-369755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-knolls","category-species-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}