When the world’s rarest primate couples up, it’s a win for the species
2020-05-28 18:56
The Hainan gibbon was once teetering and tottering at the precipice of extinction. In the 1950s, there were about 20,000 individuals living in Hainan, a tropical island at the southernmost tip of China, but 20 years later, poaching and habitat destruction nearly wiped the species out, leaving only seven to nine individuals. With conservation efforts, […]
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