Music to our ears: Rescued 'singing apes' now in care of Sabah's new gibbon rehab centre

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KOTA KINABALU: Five rescued gibbons will be sent to recover under Sabah’s first gibbon rehabilitation project set up recently in Kota Belud district on the west coast.

These North Bornean gibbons , a species of small primate, were mostly kept as pets and were now in the care of the Gibbon Conservation Society .

Mariani said the rescued gibbons, which arrived at the centre on Jan 17, were mostly orphaned and taken in by villagers as pets.She said gibbons, the only small apes, share some 96% of human DNA and help disperse seeds in the jungle, helping to keep the ecosystem in Sabah's forests balanced. Both species are categorised as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List.

 

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