Definition of hoolock gibbon
hoolock gibbons
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: a forest-dwelling gibbon (Hoolock hoolock) of Eastern Bangladesh, northeastern India, and western Myanmar; also : a closely related gibbon (Hoolock leuconedys) of southern China and northeastern Myanmar ◆Taxonomic classification remains unsettled with the hoolock gibbons often considered to be subspecies of a single species (Hoolock hoolock or Bunopithecus hoolock).
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Origin and Etymology of hoolock gibbon
native name in northeastern India or Burma
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