Formal Lab Report

Gibbon Research Lab
Gibbon Formal Lab Report
Aviv Goldshide
New Community Jewish Hight School

Biology Period B
Mrs. Tarle
December 2, 2014

Introduction Gibbons are small and endangered apes who are also known to be one of the most acrobatic species in the world. The gibbons use their acrobatic skills to leap distances of forty feet while being 200 feet in the air, flying at 35 miles per hour. These acrobatic skills usually come into play when they swing from one branch to branch (brachiating). Some sorts of gibbons are extremely rare. For example, the Eastern black gibbon is on list of the rarest primates in the wild and the Hainan gibbon is the rarest mammal in the world. The Gibbon Conservation Center was …show more content…
They have round heads with long arms. Their arms are even longer than their legs. They have skinny and short body with bones that do not weigh much and they have no tail just like all apes. Their hair on most parts of their bodies is tightly- packed, but most parts of their bodies are not covered with tightly- packed hair. Just like us, gibbons have five senses (hearing, sight, smell, taste, and touch). Like us, a gibbon’s sight is in color, not black and white. Gibbons have no hair on their faces and their eyes are dark. A male gibbon is somewhat large than a female gibbon. A male gibbon comes around at about three feet long, weighing around fifteen pounds. Gibbons eat plants and meat (omnivores). During the times where there is sunlight, gibbons will scavenge for food around the forest. They will usually find and eat fruits, leaves, flowers, seeds, tree bark, and more. Also, they sometimes scavenge for insects, spiders, bird eggs, and small birds. Gibbons have a rather interesting way of drinking water. They will either absorb water from a lake or a river with their fur and then directly drink it from there, or rubbing their fur on wet leaves and drinking the water from the fur once