Sympatry between white-handed gibbons (Hylobates lar) and pileated gibbons (H. pileatus) in Southeastern Thailand

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Author	Geissmann, Thomas
Copyright Year	2006
Abstract	White-handed gibbons (Hylobates lar) are not known to occur to the east or southeast of Bangkok. The reliably documented localities ofH. lar nearest to this area are about 120 km northeast of Bangkok. There, in the Kao Yai National Park, is the only known zone of contact betweenH. lar and the pileated gibbon (H. pileatus), another species of the so-calledlar group. Unpublished documents dating from 1925 indicate, however, that sympatry between these two species may also have existed in the region of Sriracha, about 80 km southeast of Bangkok. Therefore, a large zone of overlap in the distribution of the two species may originally have existed. In most parts of this hypothetical zone, gibbon habitat appears to have been destroyed, with the Khao Yai Park possibly representing the last remnant of the once large contact zone.
Starting Page	357
Ending Page	363
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
DOI	10.1007/BF02382676
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://www.gibbons.de/main/papers/pdf_files/1991sympatry.pdf
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02382676
Volume Number	32
Journal	Primates
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article