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Lar Gibbon
Plate 1 of 8. (c) Ladislav Král, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · via iNaturalist
IUCN EN · Endangered

Lar Gibbon

Hylobates lar

The lar gibbon (Hylobates lar), also known as the white-handed gibbon, is an endangered primate in the gibbon family, Hylobatidae. It is one of the better-known gibbons and is often seen in zoos.

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Lar Gibbon in Jean Baptiste Audebert — Histoire naturelle des singes et des makis (1800)

Jean Baptiste Audebert — Histoire naturelle des singes et des makis (1800)

Jean Baptiste Audebert · 1800 · p.45

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 43593.