GUWAHATI The conservation status of India’s only ape was a cause for concern at a global event on gibbons held a week ago in China.
Gibbons, the smallest and fastest of all apes, live in tropical and subtropical forests in the southeastern part of Asia. The hoolock gibbon, unique to India’s northeast, is one of 20 species of gibbons on Earth.
The estimated population of hoolock gibbons is 12,000.
