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  • She then added glitter to the words and cotton wool to the gibbon's fur and covered the whole thing in a blue net, and finished with a decorative stitch.

    Scotties, Inchies, Gibbons, Girls katelnorth 2007

  • She then added glitter to the words and cotton wool to the gibbon's fur and covered the whole thing in a blue net, and finished with a decorative stitch.

    Archive 2007-07-01 katelnorth 2007

  • The gibbon's actions were guided by an internal representation, which "bridged" his behavior between before and after the distraction.

    Inside the Executive Brain Sacks, Oliver 2001

  • The hominids became definitely two-handed, and the arms did not, as in the gibbon's case, unduly specialize themselves for a single function.

    The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963

  • But the gibbon's biomechanics are not those of specialised leapers, like the locust, the flea and bushbaby, whose anatomies have been been sculpted by evolution to make them super-jumpers.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • The problem is the gibbon's habitat is in tropical and subtropical rainforests from northeast India to Indonesia especially Sumatra, Borneo, and Java where environmental destruction that goes along with the massive oil palm plantations are clearing trees so rapidly that up to 98 percent of

    TreeHugger 2010

  • The problem is the gibbon's habitat is in tropical and subtropical rainforests from northeast India to Indonesia especially Sumatra, Borneo, and Java where environmental destruction that goes along with the massive oil palm plantations are clearing trees so rapidly that up to 98 percent of

    TreeHugger 2010

  • Nervous system and Senses: Although their brains are less coiled and twisted than humans, gibbon's nervous systems are just like human's nervous system.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Gbuzitis 2010

  • The problem is the gibbon's habitat is in tropical and subtropical rainforests from northeast India to Indonesia especially Sumatra, Borneo, and Java where environmental destruction that goes along with the massive oil palm plantations are clearing trees so rapidly that up to 98 percent of

    TreeHugger 2010

  • The problem is the gibbon's habitat is in tropical and subtropical rainforests from northeast India to Indonesia especially Sumatra, Borneo, and Java where environmental destruction that goes along with the massive oil palm plantations are clearing trees so rapidly that up to 98 percent of

    TreeHugger 2010

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