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White-Handed Gibbons Are True Brachiators.

White-Handed Gibbons, also known as Lar Gibbons, move through the trees of their habitat using brachiation, or hand-over-hand swinging. Due to their low body weight, elongated hands, and clavicles, they are able to sinuously move through the trees. Gibbons are the only primates that are true brachiators. They are also, sadly, endangered.

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