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Lar gibbon
Hylobates lar
- Gibbons can leap distances of 10m 鈥� that would smash any Olympic long-jump record by metres!
- Gibbons travel the distance of a marathon every fortnight.
- Even gibbons make mistakes 鈥� 1 in 3 have skeletal fractures but bones heal very quickly and they can still swing with just one arm.
- Gibbons live in family groups. Once considered monogamous, new science is revealing extra marital affairs are more common than we once thought.
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