White-handed gibbon  (Hylobates lar)

Found in the tropical rainforests of southern and Southeast Asia (8), in the countries of China, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia (9). The Malaysian lar (Hylobates lar lar) is found in Malaysia and southern Thailand, the central lar (H. l. entelloides) in southern Myanmar and southern Thailand, Carpenter's lar (H. l. carpenteri) in eastern Myanmar, north-western Thailand and Laos, the Yunnan lar (H. l. yunnanensis) in the Yunnan province of southern China and the Sumatran lar (H. l. vestitus) in Indonesia (northern Sumatra) (1) (2).

This arboreal species inhabits primary or secondary semi-deciduous monsoon forests and tropical evergreen forests (9). Occupying only the upper canopy, these gibbons rarely, if ever, descend to the forest floor (8).