Our male Lar Gibbon 'Ben' was wild caught in Thailand, and arrived at Paignton in 1958 as a young adult. He was paired to a female from the same import called 'Sally'. On her death he was transferred to Guernsey Zoo along with a hand-reared, presumed wild-taken female called 'Jill' both via Ravensden. This pair was received at Hamerton with the rest of the Guernsey Zoo collection when it closed, and had many youngsters both at Guernsey and at Hamerton. 'Ben' is fit and well and lives with his last daughter 'Ash' who was born at Hamerton.
(The early part of this information was from personal communication with James Thomas the Director of the Zoological Trust of Guernsey, and puts 'Ben' at least 61 years old.)
