Endangered
Eastern grey gibbon
Hylobates funereus
The eastern grey gibbon or northern grey gibbon is a primate in the gibbon family, Hylobatidae.
Appearance
The eastern grey gibbon or northern grey gibbon is a primate in the gibbon family, Hylobatidae.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to northeastern Borneo, and is found in Kalimantan, Sarawak, and Brunei. It ranges from Sabah south to the Mahakam River in East Kalimantan, and west to Baram in Sarawak.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
As with the other two grey gibbons, this species is thought to be endangered due to heavy deforestation in Borneo, as well as increases in forest fires exacerbated by El Niño events. It is also threatened by illegal hunting and capture for the pet trade.
Eastern grey 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 Eastern grey gibbon, Wikidata item Q29578698. 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.
