Yellow-cheeked Gibbon

Taxobox
name = Yellow-cheeked GibbonMSW3 Groves | pages = 180 | id = 12100773]

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image_caption = (left: male right: female)
status = EN
status_system = iucn3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Primates
superfamilia = Hominoidea
familia = Hylobatidae
genus = "Nomascus"
species = "N. gabriellae"
binomial = "Nomascus gabriellae"
binomial_authority = (Thomas, 1909)

The Yellow-cheeked Gibbon ("Nomascus gabriellae"), also called the Yellow-cheeked Crested Gibbon, the Golden-cheeked Crested Gibbon or the Buffed-cheeked Gibbon, is a species of gibbon native to Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.

The Yellow-cheeked Gibbon is born blond and later turns black, and males carry this colouring through their lifespan and have the distinguishing golden cheeks; females are born blonde to blend into their mother's fur but they later turn black and turn back to blond at sexual maturity and only have a black cap on the top of their heads.fact|date = March 2008 This diurnal and arboreal gibbon lives in primary tropical rainforest, foraging for fruits, using braciation to move through the trees.fact|date = March 2008 The Yellow-cheeked Gibbon, like all gibbon species, has a unique song which is usually initiated by the male.fact|date = March 2008 The female will then join in and sing with the male to reinforce their bond and announce to other gibbons that they are a pair in a specific territory.fact|date = March 2008 The male usually finishes the song after the female has stopped singing.fact|date = March 2008 Little is known about this species in the wild, but it is thought that it has a life span of approximately 46 years.fact|date = March 2008

A recent report by the Wildlife Conservation Society counted 2,500 yellow-cheeked crested gibbons in Cambodia’s Seima Biodiversity Conservation Area, an estimate that represents the largest known population of the species in the world. [ [http://newswise.com/articles/view/543861/ Unexpected Large Monkey Population Discovered] Newswise, Retrieved on August 28, 2008.]

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