noun

• A small, slender tree-dwelling ape with long powerful arms and loud hooting calls, native to the forests of Southeast Asia.

  See also white-handed gibbon

  Family Hylobatidae and genus Hylobates: several species

  ‘Those species were chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan, gibbon, macaque and owl monkey.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Today it comprises humans, the gibbons, and the great apes (orangutan, chimpanzee, and gorilla).’
  • ‘Only five percent of mammals are thought to be socially monogamous, including gibbons, jackals, and tamarins.’
  • ‘The four orang-utans and two gibbons were returned to Indonesia after being illegally poached and smuggled to Japan eight months ago.’
  • ‘Over the years, the temple has became a famous sanctuary for tigers, deer, boars, peacocks, fowl, gibbons and horses.’