Sumatran lar gibbon

Sumatran lar gibbon
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Primates
Suborder:	Haplorhini
Infraorder:	Simiiformes
Family:	Hylobatidae
Genus:	Hylobates
Species:	H. lar
Subspecies:	H. l. vestitus
Trinomial name
Hylobates lar vestitus Miller, 1942
Lar gibbon range, including northern Sumatra

The Sumatran lar gibbon (Hylobates lar vestitus), also known as the Sumatran white-handed gibbon, is a subspecies of the lar gibbon, a primate in the gibbon family Hylobatidae. It is native to the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. ^[1] It shares the tree tops with orangutans, which, like the gibbon, rarely come out of the trees due to predators, such as tigers and possibly sun bears.

References

1. Brockelman, W.; Geissmann, T.; Nowak, M.G. (2020). "Hylobates lar ssp. vestitus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2020 e.T39884A17991090. Retrieved 29 July 2020.

External links

• ARKive - images and movies of the white-handed gibbon (Hylobates lar)
• Gibbon Conservation Center
• Thomas Geissmann's Gibbon Research Lab and Gibbon Network