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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Amrit Dhillon in Barekuri

Guardians of the gibbons: inside the Indian village where humans and hoolocks live side by side

A hoolock gibbon in a tree
A still from Guardians of the Gibbons, a Guardian documentary on hoolock gibbons, the only ape species in India. Photograph: The Guardian

On a misty winter morning, farmer Mohit Chutia sits on the ground outside his home rocking his grandson in his lap. He sings about the hoolock gibbons, the only ape species in India. High in the tree canopy above, the gibbons leap gracefully from branch to branch. Below, Chutia and his family watch.

It is a picture of the coexistence that has endured for generations between the endangered gibbons and villagers in Barekuri in Assam, in the remote east of the country.

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