Cao-vit Gibbon Nomascus nasutus
Critically Endangered
Location: China, Vietnam
The Cao Vit Gibbon belongs to genus Nomascus and are found in Vietnam and southern China. They are known to communicate in species-specific song when defining territory or attracting mates. They sing in regional accents to each other and form breeding pairs.
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The Cao Vit Gibbon is listed as Critically Endangered because of an observed population decline of at least 80% over the past 45 years (three generations), primarily due to hunting and habitat loss. This species historically inhabited lower montane and limestone forests, in a wet tropical monsoon climate, at an altitude range of 50-900 m (Tien 1983). The known population is now entirely restricted to limestone forests on poorly accessible karst outcrops ranging between 500-930 m in elevation (Rawson et al. 2011). It is now restricted to the Cao Vit Gibbon Conservation Area, Vietnam, and Bangliang Nature Reserve, China, which comprises a total of 2,500 ha of limestone forest straddling the Sino-Vietnamese border (Fan et al. 2013a).
Numerous conservation efforts of these rarest of small primates are ongoing.
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Rawson, B.M., Roos, C., Nguyen, M.H., Bleisch, W., Geissmann, T. & Fan, P.F. 2020. Nomascus nasutus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T41642A17969578. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T41642A17969578.en. Downloaded on 28 January 2021.
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