gibbon cages

agile gibbon (Hylobates agilis) on left and white-handed gibbon (Hylobates lar) on right

compare the size of these two cages with the size of the aviaries just ten or twenty metres away http://www.zoochat.com/1231/aviaries-146938/

October 2009
review here: http://www.zoochat.com/238/medan-zoo-north-sumatra-112525/

Nooooooooooo.............. surely these aren't what they live in?

unfortunately, yes. On the review thread there's a link a couple of posts down to another site where there are photos of the primates in these same exact cages, and they date from about a year before my visit. These cages are their permanent housing.