: any of a family (Hylobatidae) of agile brachiating tailless apes of southeastern Asia that are the smallest and most arboreal anthropoid apes
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The stipulation ended about two and a half years ago, Fisher said, and the zoo now has about 35 monkeys, ranging from larger white-handed gibbons to pygmy marmosets, one of the smallest monkey species.—Lillian Ashworth, Oc Register, 18 July 2025 As the day turned to evening, echoes of a gibbon’s howl from the nearby Cincinnati Zoo would sometimes punctuate the festivities.—Noel Burgess, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025 The other co-defendant, Jason Clay, was found to have illegally sold a chimpanzee to Antle in exchange for $200,000 in cash and a juvenile gibbon.—Ryan Coleman Published, EW.com, 9 July 2025 The yellow-cheeked gibbon, described as an independent endangered primate species in 2010, has only been found in a few forests in Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia, and is now confirmed in the national park.—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 22 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gibbon
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