These acrobatic tree-dwellers are vanishing—and nobody's talking about them.
Gibbons are highly intelligent, agile and acrobatic tree-dwelling apes, found in the tropical forests of Asia. Most of the gibbon species are highly endangered and are on the verge of extinction as a result of the destruction of their tropical rain forest habitat as well as being hunted for food.
Production
Rare canopy footage of gibbons brachiating
Acting
Darien Gold's warm, urgent narration
Director
Elliot Haimoff
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gibbons are the only true brachiators—swinging arm-over-arm faster than you can run.
Director Elliot Haimoff spent three years in Southeast Asian canopies to capture footage other crews abandoned as 'too difficult.'
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