Critically Endangered
Northern white-cheeked gibbon
Nomascus leucogenys
Northern white-cheeked gibbon is a primate in the family Hylobatidae (order Primates) — Nomascus leucogenys, recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
Northern white-cheeked gibbons are sexually dimorphic, with males and females having different colourations and the former also being slightly larger. Males have black hair over their entire bodies, except for distinct white patches on their cheeks, as well as a prominent tuft of hair on the crown of head, and a gular sac. Females are reddish-tan in colour, lack a cranial tuft, and have a crest of black or dark brown fur running from the crown to the nape of the neck.
Published measurements include mass about 480.
Range and habitat
Today, the northern white-cheeked gibbon is found only in northern Vietnam and northern Laos. The gibbon inhabits primary evergreen subtropical forest between 200 and 1,650 metres (660 and 5,410 ft) in elevation. The northern white-cheeked gibbon is a Critically Endangered species of gibbon native to South East Asia.
Habitat labels include forest.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
The northern white-cheeked gibbon is arboreal in habits, and primarily herbivorous, feeding mainly on fruits, with some leaves, buds, and flowers. Even so, up to 10% of their diet may be composed of insects and other small animals.
In crisis
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix I. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Northern white-cheeked gibbon is Critically 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 Northern white-cheeked gibbon, Wikidata item Q998141. 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.
