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Eastern Black Crested Gibbon
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The Eastern Black Crested Gibbon (Nomascus nasutus) is a species of gibbon that was once widespread in China and Vietnam. There are 2 subspecies.
It became extinct on the Chinese mainland in the 1950s; and now roughly only 20 gibbons of the subspecies Nomascus nasutus hainanus (Hainan Gibbon) survive on Hainan Island and around 26 individuals of the subspecies Nomascus nasutus nasutus (Cao Vit Gibbon) was rediscovered in 2002 in the Trung Khanh district of Cao Bang Province in northeast Vietnam, after last being seen in the 1960s.[2]
The Eastern Black Crested Gibbon is the rarest and most critically endangered primate in the world. Its demise has come from deforestation of its habitat, encroachment, and poaching.
- ^ Geissmann, T. (2003). Nomascus nasutus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 2006-11-21.
- ^ Mootnick, A. R., Rylands, A. B. and Konstant, W. R. 2005. Hainan Black-crested Gibbon, Nomascus nasutus hainanus (Thomas, 1892). In: Primates in Peril: The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates 2004-2006, R. A. Mittermeier, C. Valladares-Pádua, A. B. Rylands, A. A. Eudey, T. M. Butynski, J. U. Ganzhorn, R. Kormos, J. M. Aguiar and S. Walker (eds.), pp.30-31. Report to IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group (PSG), International Primatological Society (IPS) and Conservation International (CI), Washington, DC.
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| Extant family | Hylobatidae · Hominidae |  |
| Extant genera | Hylobates · Hoolock · Nomascus · Symphalangus · Pongo · Gorilla · Pan · Homo | |
| Extant species | Lar Gibbon · Agile Gibbon · Müller's Bornean Gibbon · Silvery Gibbon · Pileated Gibbon · Kloss's Gibbon · Western Hoolock Gibbon · Eastern Hoolock Gibbon · Siamang · Black Crested Gibbon · Eastern Black Crested Gibbon · White-cheeked Crested Gibbon · Yellow-cheeked Crested Gibbon · Bornean Orangutan · Sumatran Orangutan · Western Gorilla · Eastern Gorilla · Common Chimpanzee · Bonobo · Human | |
| Ape study | Aquatic ape hypothesis · Ape language · Ape Trust · Dian Fossey · Birutė Galdikas · Jane Goodall · Chimpanzee genome project · Human genome project | |
| Legal status | Personhood · Research ban · Declaration · Kinshasa Declaration · Great Ape Project · Survival Project | |
| See also... | Bushmeat · Ape extinction · List of notable apes · List of fictional apes · Human evolution · Mythic Humanoids · Hominid · Planet of the Apes | |