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National Geographic : 1940 Aug
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The Manlike Apes of Jungle and Mountain SiNational Ueograpnic Nociety Painting by Elle Cheverlange With Amazing Agility, the Gibbon Hurls Itself Through the Treetops Even on the ground, the Black-capped Gibbons of Thailand (Siam) travel at surprising speed, with long arms held up at a comical angle, elbows bent and hands drooping. In the same way they run swiftly along branches. Poor swimmers, the animals cross streams by aerial routes where trees on opposite banks intertwine. One variety, the hoolock, is as helpless in the water as a human being who has never learned to swim. VII
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