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lesser ape

DEFINITIONS OF: lesser ape

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n gibbons and siamangs

Types:
Hylobates lar, gibbon
smallest and most perfectly anthropoid arboreal ape having long arms and no tail; of southern Asia and East Indies
Hylobates syndactylus, Symphalangus syndactylus, siamang
large black gibbon of Sumatra having the 2nd and 3rd toes partially united by a web
Type of:
anthropoid ape
any tailless ape of the families Pongidae and Hylobatidae
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