HOOLOCK GIBBON 
(Hylobates hoolock) 
The Gibbon is the smallest, as well as the most arboreal, of the 
anthropoid or man-like apes. Though capable of walking upright, it 
is by habit thoroughly arboreal and travels chiefly by swinging with its 
long arms from branch to branch or tree to tree. The Gibbon has been 
known to swing a distance of forty feet and catch the branch with 
safety. When swinging along, the food is sometimes carried by the feet. 
The Hoolock Gibbon inhabits Upper Burma, Assam and Southern 
Yunan. Other species occur elsewhere in the Malayan region. 
An.mals by Robert Rockwell Background by A. A. Jansson 
