How to Use gibbon in a Sentence
gibbon
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The small snout of the skull would have made Alesi look like a baby gibbon.
—Charles Q. Choi, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2017
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The Kansas City Zoo is mourning the loss of a baby gibbon.
—Ally Mauch, PEOPLE.com, 14 June 2021
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But this is the first example of the rare Hainan gibbon using them.
—Lucy Hicks, Science | AAAS, 15 Oct. 2020
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The zoo’s news release did not include a name for the infant gibbon.
—Rachel Herzog, Arkansas Online, 16 Dec. 2019
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Avoiding the paved or dirt roads below our gibbon is far from easy.
—Todd Martensgame Critic, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2022
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Just last week, a team of researchers described a new species of gibbon in China.
—Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2017
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The Little Rock Zoo on Monday announced the birth of a new baby gibbon.
—Rachel Herzog, Arkansas Online, 16 Dec. 2019
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First, early apes used their arms to swing through the trees like modern-day gibbons found in Asia do today.
—Discover Magazine, 29 Jan. 2024
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The animals in the forest inspire me, the amazing gibbons inspired me to learn how to climb trees.
—Unding Jami, National Geographic, 3 Apr. 2019
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Across from the white-cheeked gibbon enclosure sits a great, sprawling bur oak tree, about 45 feet tall.
—Maddie Ellis, Chicago Tribune, 30 Nov. 2022
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That spring a friend encouraged Gibbons to run for city council again.
—Jasmine Leyva, The Mercury News, 11 Jan. 2017
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The gibbons, however, seem well on their way to making a lovely union.
—Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 14 June 2019
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In China, a subspecies called the white-handed gibbon may have gone extinct as well.
—Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2017
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In the clip, the otter clambers next to the gibbon and starts smelling the ape's armpits and feet while repeatedly pawing the other animal.
—Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2022
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The animal had a short snout, similar to that of a gibbon but unlike other apes.
—Mark Barna, Discover Magazine, 1 Feb. 2018
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Dr Turvey and his colleagues were thus able to compare the animal’s skull, jaw and teeth with those of modern gibbons.
—The Economist, 23 June 2018
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The Akron Zoo is asking people to vote to help decide a name for its newest addition — a white-cheeked gibbon born Dec. 9.
—Megan Becka, cleveland, 12 Jan. 2022
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A year later, they were joined by 14 gibbons, but these apes, which typically swing through the canopies of Asian rainforests, didn’t take to the flat, small island.
—Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2017
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Wei-Haas reports that the fossil suggests that gibbons may have lived in central China 2,000 years ago.
—Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 23 June 2018
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The Akron Zoo on Friday announced the name for its newest addition, a baby white-cheeked gibbon.
—Megan Becka, cleveland, 28 Jan. 2022
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Sophia Paden holds a piece of papaya up to the fence for Pepper, a northern white-cheeked gibbon, whose counterparts in the wild number fewer than 1,000.
—Sharon Boorstin, latimes.com, 4 July 2019
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Gibbons will discuss the socioeconomic and political impact of the decade as well as the end of the Cold War.
—Michelle Mullins, Naperville Sun, 1 July 2017
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As an adult, a female gibbon sings elaborate duets with her male partner.
—Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 14 Aug. 2013
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The infant gibbon is at least the second baby animal welcomed in Little Rock in 2019.
—Rachel Herzog, Arkansas Online, 16 Dec. 2019
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There are shy animals, like the hermit crab, and outgoing animals, like the gibbon, shaking you down for your KIND bar in the rain forest.
—Colin Nissan, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
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The park has held off on an expansion of its gibbon pen, a big project that would have given the playful primates more space, but would have also required taking out a loan.
—Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2023
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Though there are tiny apes (the gibbon, at under 20 pounds) and large monkeys (the mandrill, up to 80 pounds), apes are generally larger and require a lot more calories.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 5 Dec. 2019
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That means a swinging gibbon can rotate its entire body around its wrist, giving them a unique style of movement called brachiation (video).
—Discover Magazine, 17 Mar. 2011
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And those complex sounds are limited to a relatively small group of species that includes songbirds, gibbons and bats.
—Cleve R. Wootson Jr., chicagotribune.com, 4 Apr. 2018
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Silly love songs Skywalker gibbons can’t swim, so rivers often form natural boundaries for them.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 14 Feb. 2024
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