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Hylobates

noun
1.
Gibbons.  Synonym: genus Hylobates.



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"Hylobates" Quotes from Famous Books



... they were not thus rendered less fitted for climbing trees. We may suspect that a hand as perfect as that of man would have been disadvantageous for climbing; for the most arboreal monkeys in the world, namely, Ateles in America, Colobus in Africa, and Hylobates in Asia, are either thumbless, or their toes partially cohere, so that their limbs are converted into mere grasping hooks. (71. In Hylobates syndactylus, as the name expresses, two of the toes regularly cohere; and this, as Mr. Blyth informs me, is occasionally the case with ...
— The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex • Charles Darwin



Words linked to "Hylobates" :   family Hylobatidae, gibbon, siamang, Hylobatidae, mammal genus, Symphalangus syndactylus



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