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  • Gibbons, like the one pictured above, brachiate, or swing from branch to branch, more than other monkeys. ( JJ Harrison, Wikimedia Commons )
    Brachiation
    Walker Rhea
    Today’s A Moment of Science examines brachiation, which is how apes and monkeys swing through the trees. Orangutans, spider monkeys, and chimpanzees can brachiate, but gibbons do it most often.
  • After a landslide destroyed part of their habitat, scientists built a bridge for endangered Hainan Gibbons, picture here. (J J Harrison, Wikimedia Commons)
    Bridging The Gibbon Divide
    Walker Rhea
    When a landslide in China created a treeless gully in a forest, the apes who lived there had to leap dangerously across, or take a long detour through the trees. So scientists built them a bridge.