They live on the higher canopy in a hot and wet climate. They
start their morning with a breakfast with fruit and sing songs
in chorus. They live in family groups and they have long
childhood like us. They are monogamy and do not take babies if
they do not find a territory of their own. These beautiful,
social and peace loving animals are Hoolock Gibbons,
scientifically known as hoolock hoolock. Local people say
Woolluk. Gibbons are lesser apes. Gibbons are the only apes in
mainland Asia. Hoolock gibbons are very special because they are
genetically very different from other gibbons and for them it is
very difficult to survive in captivity. The Vanishing Ape, the
series of photographs shown on the life of Hoolock gibbons of
Lawachara, a tropical monsoon forest in the North East of
Bangladesh. Lawachara has the biggest single population of
Hoolocks in Bangladesh which is rapidly decreasing. In 1980
there were 3000 gibbons in Bangladesh, in 2005, only 300, how
long can they survive? IUCN declared hoolock gibbon