Endangered
Agile Gibbon
Hylobates agilis
The agile gibbon is an Old World primate, and is a part of the gibbon family.
Appearance
The agile gibbon has fur varying in color from black to red-brown. The brow is white, and the male can be recognized by his white or light-grey cheeks.
The agile gibbon weighs from 4 to 6 kg (8.8 to 13.2 lb) with an average of 5 kg (11 lb), though in captivity it can reach 8 kg (18 lb).
Range and habitat
The agile gibbon is found on Sumatra southeast of Lake Toba and the Singkil River, in a small area on the Malay Peninsula, and south Thailand near the Malaysian border. It predominantly lives arboreally in rain forests and rarely comes to the ground. It is native to Indonesia, specifically, on the island of Sumatra.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
The diet of the agile gibbon is generally frugivorous but have also been observed eating leaves, flowers, and insects. When fully mature, at about 8 years, it leaves its family group in order to look for a mate.
In crisis
As appointed by the IUCN Red List, this species is endangered, and mainly due to the destruction of their habitat and pet trade.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix I. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Agile Gibbon is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Agile Gibbon, Wikidata item Q838962. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
