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India has only one Hoolock Gibbon Species

  • Fourteen years after reports noting that India has two separate species of the gibbon – the hoolock gibbon and the eastern hoolock gibbon – a genetic analysis by Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad has now proved that there is only one species of ape in India.
  • The hoolock gibbon (Hoolock hoolock) is the only gibbon (apes in the family Hylobatidae) found in India, according to the analysis. Earlier, northeastern India was said to be home to two species: eastern (Hoolock leuconedys) and western hoolock (Hoolock hoolock) gibbons.
  • Western hoolock gibbon ....
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