Lawachara National Park, a protected forest spanning 1,250 hectares in Moulvibazar district, is home to rich biodiversity and is one of the last remaining strongholds of the critically endangered ...

Forest officials in Arunachal Pradesh released a family of three hoolock gibbons in Mehao Wildlife Sanctuary in lower Dibang Valley district. A team of veterinarians and biologists from the ...

Surveillance footage recently captured a rare sighting of a family of three Skywalker hoolock gibbons at the Gaoligongshan ...

Alarmed by the disappearance of Eastern hoolock gibbons from the reserved forests of Sadiya subdivision in Tinsukia district, conservationists urged the state government to notify the animals’ ...

In its latest study, the Hyderabad-based CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology has shared details on the population of western hoolock gibbons in India’s North-eastern region. The study found ...

A newly recognized primate that lives in eastern Myanmar and southwestern China has been named after Star Wars' Luke Skywalker. The scientists who discovered the animal decided to choose the name ...

A new species of gibbon found in a remote forest in China has been named after Star Wars character Luke Skywalker. Scientists studying hoolock gibbons on Mount Gaoligong, along China’s border with ...

The primate was discovered in the forests of the Gaoligong Mountains, which straddle the border between southwest China and northern Myanmar. The species represents a new addition to the genus of ...

India has only one species of Hoolock gibbons and not two. Hoolock gibbons are small apes and the only apes present in India. A research study by city-based Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology ...

Tura, Feb. 12: A pair of western hoolock gibbons, locally known as huro, rescued seven years ago and nurtured in a shelter, were released in Nokrek National Park in the West Garo Hills on Wednesday.