#critically endangered primates

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A Tree Highway For Endangered Gibbons Is Restored With A Rope Bridge

In 2014, a landslide carved out a significant gap in the forest of China’s Hainan Island, damaging an arboreal highway, a favored route through the trees that Hainan gibbons use to cross the rainforest. Researchers noticed that as the apes leaped from tree to tree, this gap prevented them from...