White-handed gibbon now extinct in China:
“This loss is particularly tragic”, says anthropologist Thomas Geissmann, “because the extinct Chinese population was described as a distinct subspecies, the so-called Yunnan white-handed gibbon.” This subspecies (Hylobates lar yunnanensis) is not known from any other place. Geissmann now hopes that the subspecies may have survived in neighbouring Myanmar, but so far, he has no evidence for this.
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