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English historian best known for his history of the Roman Empire (1737-1794)

smallest and most perfectly anthropoid arboreal ape having long arms and no tail

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Summary: One visitor to Memphis Zoo has had a closer encounter than he might have liked with a territorial male gibbon.
"I am extremely angry but there is nothing I can do about the police," said Mr Gibbon, who lodged a complaint with the police about how they had deal with his case and their slow progress.
The researchers recorded 20 gibbon calls in normal air atmosphere, before recording 37 calls in a helium-enriched atmosphere.
In the breaks between a heavy rotation of teen ballads and angst-ridden rock songs, Indonesia's Radio Kalaweit, which means "gibbon" in the local dialect, champions the cause of endangered gibbons to its youthful audience.
She said the gibbon was recaptured after about 15 to 20 minutes and all the visitors were released from their places of safety.
'The project, known as Jahoo Gibbon based in O'rang district's Sen Monorom commune, offers visitors a first-hand experience and insight into the gibbons and other rare species in the Keo Seima and Phnom Prich wildlife sanctuaries."
A team of eight researchers from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) published a paper in Science magazine, titled "New genus of extinct Holocene gibbon associated with humans in Imperial China," on June 22 introducing Junzi imperialis, or imperial gibbons, explaining the importance of the find.
An aspiring filmmaker and model from Queens, Gibbons was found dead in some bushes on the road.
Holroyd told Leeds Crown Court yesterday he knew Mr Fletcher was unconscious and bleeding from the nose after he had been punched by Gibbon, causing him to fall downstairs into the basement of the premises in Acre Street.
There's a seven metre high viewing building while visitors can also watch the gibbon families swinging across the four moated islands from outside too.
On-line retailer Amazon Inc (Nasdaq:AMZN) announced on Friday the availability of the first six episodes of its first original live-action kids series aimed at children aged six to 11 years of age, Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street, on Prime Instant Video in the US.
The gibbon genome fills the gap between Old World Monkeys like macaques and baboons and the great apes, said the study leader, primate genomics expert Lucia Carbone of the Oregon Health & Science University and the Oregon National Primate Research Center.
David Gibbon, 28, from Stockton, was jailed for four and a half years after the judge said he was a danger to the public.
| Taking part in the Barnardo's Bike Ride 2013 at the weekend, from left, Ceri Gibbon, Dewi Gibbon, aged 13, and Tyrone Gibbon PICTURE: Richard Swingler