A gibbon of mountain forests in southwestern China and nearby areas. Adult males and females have very different coat colors.
Adult males are almost entirely black with a crest of fur on the crown. Adult females are beige-gold with a black patch on the crown.
It uses its long arms to swing from branch to branch.
In a 14-month study of one group on Wuliang Mountain in Yunnan, most observations were in primary forest, which also held many of the group’s key food plants and sleeping trees.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.