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gibbon

any small agile arboreal anthropoid ape of the genus Hylobates, inhabiting forests in S Asia

Gibbon

1. Edward. 1737--94, English historian; author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776--88), controversial in its historical criticism of Christianity
2. Lewis Grassic , real name James Leslie Mitchell. 1901--35, Scottish writer: best known for his trilogy of novels Scots Quair (1932--34)
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gibbon

[′gib·ən]
(vertebrate zoology)
The common name for seven species of large, tailless primates belonging to the genus Hylobates ; the face and ears are hairless, and the arms are longer than the legs.
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En el mono capuchino, gibon de manos blancas y lemur cola anillada se originan en la cara ventro-lateral del margen caudal del cartilago cricoides para seguir su recorrido hasta llegar a la superficie caudo-medial del cartilago tiroides, destacando su forma triangular.
En primates se han descrito diversas formas de locomocion, de las cuales, la mayoria las realizan mediante el apoyo de los cuatro miembros locomotores, a excepcion del desplazamiento braceador como lo tienen los gibones (Hylobates sp.
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He was joined on the scoresheet by Keil Rolands (2), John Arkle and Paul Gibon.
Existe una demanda creciente por un nuevo modelo de produccion en caprinos y ovinos que satisfaga objetivos multiples, tales como la eficiencia productiva, el bienestar animal, el uso correcto del medio ambiente y los recursos no renovables, asi como la calidad y seguridad de los productos que de ellos derivan (Gibon et al., 1999).
A partir de los prosimios primitivos se producira la separacion entre los prosimios propiamente tales (lemur, lori) y los antropoides (platirrinios, catarrinos, gibon, orangutan, gorila, chimpance).
With three races to sail, the others being the Sydney -- Wollongong and Wollongong -- Sydney races in February, Graham Gibon's Farr 47, Ninety Seven and Syd Fischer's Farr 50, Ragamuffin, were equal on 470 points each after one drop race.
Referee Pearson waved aside all the protests but later in the half booked Bury's Paul Reid and Wigan's Pat Mc Gibon for hand ball.