Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Gibbon II
Middle and upper stories of deciduous monsoon and evergreen rain forest in southern Burma, Thailand, the Malay Peninsula, Sundaland to North Sumatra. (Also Indochina & Tenasserim?) Recently extirpated in Lancang county, China.
Fruit specialists (diet 75% ripe fruit). May visit 16 or more widely spaced food trees in a day's foraging. Rest of diet consists of leaves, young plant shoots, flowers, birds' eggs, birds, insects, and spiders. Zoo diet is primate chow, fruits, vegetables and browse. They drink by licking their own fur after a storm, or dipping an arm into a tree hole or rubbing it on wet foliage.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
MacDonald, David. 1987. The Encyclopedia of Mammals, Equinox, Oxford.
Fruit specialists (diet 75% ripe fruit). May visit 16 or more widely spaced food trees in a day's foraging. Rest of diet consists of leaves, young plant shoots, flowers, birds' eggs, birds, insects, and spiders. Zoo diet is primate chow, fruits, vegetables and browse. They drink by licking their own fur after a storm, or dipping an arm into a tree hole or rubbing it on wet foliage.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
MacDonald, David. 1987. The Encyclopedia of Mammals, Equinox, Oxford.
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