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Gibbons Singing Hope in the Hills | Raleigh News
In the quiet hills north of Los Angeles, a sanctuary has been quietly saving gibbons — critically endangered primates whose haunting songs echo through the forest — for fifty years. Now home to forty gibbons across five species, the center is led by director Gabi Skollar, who lives on-site and treats each gibbon like her own child while pursuing a doctorate at UCLA to decode their calls for wild conservation. Facing extinction in Southeast Asia due to habitat loss and poaching, these rescued or born-in-captivity gibbons are vital to breeding programs that preserve genetic diversity for…
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