How To Use Gibbon In A Sentence

JIM GIBBONS, NEVADA: Nevada is the state that needs water, but we don't need it all at once. CNN Transcript Jan 7, 2008
The architectural ornament is of that easy and delectable kind which mimics nature: the acanthus leaves of Corinthian capitals, garlands and trophies in the manner of Wren and Grinling Gibbons.
In the sixteenth chapter, Gibbon examines the persecution of Christians by several Roman emperors.
The four orang-utans and two gibbons were returned to Indonesia after being illegally poached and smuggled to Japan eight months ago.
In the rain forests of Southeast Asia live the most agile of all mammals: the slender, long-limbed gibbons.

This is why MGM was the echt Hollywood studio of the first half of the century, its scripts adapted from nineteenth-century novels by Tolstoy and Dickens, its gowns by Adrian, and its sets by Cedric Gibbons.
The Javan gibbon (Hylobates moloch) is also critically endangered. Western Java rain forests
The range of Orlando Gibbons can be savoured first in another expressive and touching pavan.
Along the way Gray offers idiosyncratic commentaries on Chaucer, Pepys, Gibbon, Milton and Burns.
Pat Gibbons, specialist acer grower, from Hippopottering Nursery at East Lound, Haxey, Doncaster, was hoping to catch the public's eye in the Great Pavilion with a new pink variety, Acer Palmatium Taylor.
He liked the stately monuments much more than he liked Gibbon or Ruskin; he loved their dignity; their unity; their scale; their lines; their lights and shadows; their decorative sculpture; but he was even less conscious than they of the force that created it all, the Virgin, the Woman, by whose genius the stately monuments of superstition were built, through which she was expressed. The Dynamo and the Virgin (1900)
Vietnam is host to several principal kinds of primates: gibbons (lesser apes), langurs and macaques (which are both monkeys), and lorises (which are prosimians).
However, these forests contain numerous primate species such as several leaf-monkey species, slow loris (Nycticebus coucang), long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis), pig-tailed macaque (M. nemestrina), and siamang (Hylobates syndactylus), the region's largest gibbon and found only in Malaya and Sumatra's lowland forests. Sumatran lowland rain forests
An important early modern historian was the British scholar Edward Gibbon.
Primate biologist Dr David Chivers of the University of Cambridge compared the cast with those from other known primates and local animals and concluded that it was definitely an ape with a unique blend of features from gibbon, orang-utan, chimpanzee and human. On the trail of the orang pendek, Sumatra's mystery ape | Richard Freeman
The formal part of the wedding (the vows and rings) came first, and the usual particulars of evensong followed - Rose responses, a psalm to Anglican chant, Gibbons Second Service canticles, and a few hymns.
That at least is the doctrine of Gibbon; but perhaps it would not be found altogether able to sustain itself against a closer and philosophic examination of the true elements involved in the idea of declension as applied to political bodies. The Caesars
Oh did I laugh She was known as the gibbon for while after that Army Rumour Service
Interestingly, Judge Cole’s opinion in Lett had the support of Gibbons (a Bush II appointee) but not that of Forrester. The Volokh Conspiracy » Sixth Circuit 0–3 in Habeas Cases This Term
War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice. Edward Gibbon
For these animals, as well as another 45 moon bears and 14 sun bears, 50 macaques, 30 gibbons, 10 crocodiles, 4 binturongs, and 200 dogs, Banglamung Wildlife Breeding Center is essentially a well-appointed refugee center.
My family arms are the same, which were borne by the Gibbons of Kent in an age, when the College of Heralds religiously guarded the distinctions of blood and name: a lion rampant gardant, between three schallop-shells argent, on a field azure. Memoirs of My Life and Writings
These, in the opinion of the editor, are the most uncandid paragraphs in Gibbon's History.
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. History and Historians. Edward Gibbon
In Gibbon v Mitchell (1990) 1 WLR 1304, Millett J reviewed many of the older authorities on mistake and held that for a person to set aside a voluntary transaction (such as the creation of a settlement) on the basis of mistake, that mistake had to refer to the effect of the transaction in question rather than its consequences. The Lawyer - Latest News
Today it comprises humans, the gibbons, and the great apes (orangutan, chimpanzee, and gorilla).
There are several large mammals of conservation significance in this ecoregion, including the endangered douc langur (Pygathrix nemaeus), red-cheeked gibbon (Hylobates gabriellae), and pileated gibbon (Hylobates pileatus) and potentially the tiger (Panthera tigris). Southern Vietnam lowland dry forests
The principal chief conservator of forests had recently said hoolock gibbons were abundantly available in Assam and there was no need to raise a hue and cry to protect them.
He left Downing Street in 1963 almost an object of ridicule, condemned in Gibbonian terms as the symbol of national decay.
The world of the hoolock gibbons in the Borajan reserve forest in Assam is dying, thanks to illegal tree-felling.
As a result, Gibbons, who did the artwork for the novel is listed as the film's sole "cocreator". The Georgia Straight - News And Views
For instance, the golden langur (Semnopithecus geei), hispid hare (Caprolagus hispidus), and pygmy hog (Sus salvanius) are limited to the north bank of the river, whereas the hoolock gibbon (Hylobates hoolock) and stump-tailed macaque (Macaca arctoides) are limited to the south bank. Brahmaputra Valley semi-evergreen forests
We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win. Edward Gibbon
WILLIAM GIBBONS, DIR, PASSENGER SHIPPING ASSN: You don't have to worry about exchange rate, because you can prebook your cruise in North America, in dollars, pay for you excursions in dollars, as well. CNN Transcript May 3, 2008
There were two tries apiece for wing Rory Kerr and centre Alan Gibbon, with Ross Lothian getting the other one.
An important early modern historian was the British scholar Edward Gibbon.
Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives himself---Edward Gibbon, English historian.
During this period 11 to 16 million years ago, known as the Miocene, there was an evolutionary split between the great apes and the lesser apes, which include modern gibbons and siamangs.
The black gibbon is a true brachiator which means it moves by suspensory behavior.
His main claim to fame was that he made the Chiquita guitar that Billy Gibbons endorsed about ten, fifteen years ago.
Jim Gibbons was tossed aside Tuesday -- the first incumbent governor in Nevada history to lose a nominating election after a tumultuous first term marred by a bitter divorce, allegations of infidelities and an abrasive style that alienated members of his own party. Las Vegas News - LasVegasNOW.com
Of the apes, though many can stand upright, the gibbon is the only one that attempts to walk in this position. Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution
Coroner David Gibbons said he was satisfied that Mr Pollards death was was a tragic accident.
The Mayo Abbey and Brize region has lost a kindly gentleman with the passing of Sonny Gibbons.
À memória vem o comic clássico de Alan Moore e Dave Gibbons, Wathcmen, em que um homem super-poderoso deixa sobre marte uma cratera que se assemelha a um... smiley. Leituras
At least in siamang gibbons, new mates have to learn the fine coordination between his part and hers.
Though four generations older than Henry Purcell, Orlando Gibbons wrote a body of music for viols that exerts much the same fascination as Purcell's later and more familiar viol fantasias.
Gibbon’s inference may appear stronger than the text will warrant, yet it is difficult, after reading the passages, to dismiss all suspicion of partiality from the mind. — The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Here we see the elusive and shy marsh gibbon, brachiating through the sphagnum swamps.
Gibbon viewed himself as just such a stranger, characterizing himself as a "devout pilgrim from the remote and once savage countries of the North" who has now returned to the cradle of western civilization to pay homage and resurrect its glories (II. 641-2). The Ruins of Empire: Nationalism, Art, and Empire in Hemans's Modern Greece
In March 1979, they decided to have the camporee at Camp Billy Gibbons, and except for a couple of years when district camporees were held, the camporee has been held there.
He said in August Gibbons had managed to detoxify and was now seeing the Swindon and Wiltshire Alcohol and Drugs Service regularly.
The up-to-date stratigraphy and earlier radiometric dates on these and other Late Precambrian rocks of this area are given in Pharaoh & Gibbons.
JIM GIBBONS, NEVADA, GOVERNOR: Nevada is the state that needs water but we don't need it all at once. CNN Transcript Jan 5, 2008
It is the golden era of Roman history, praised by Gibbon and admired by all historians, during which the eyes of contemporaries saw nothing but to panegyrize. Ancient States and Empires
The last lower molar (wisdom tooth) of the gibbon is like that of man, quadri-tuberculate. More Science From an Easy Chair
Those species were chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan, gibbon, macaque and owl monkey.
I wondered if a gibbous moon makes a gibbon speak gibberish? Myrtle Beach Daze
The forest is also home to tigers, jaguars, leopards, langur, black gibbon, Malaysian bears, pheasants, and crested arguses.
There are only four principal kinds now existing, namely, the gibbon, orang-outang, chimpanzee, and the gorilla, of which the first is much less familiar than the others. The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope
In the sixteenth chapter, Gibbon examinees the persecution of Christians by several Roman emperors.
Gibbons failed to see the commercial value of his discovery.
Our previous house dated from the mid-60s, and the wiring was not done by drugged gibbons (well, not that we know of) ... but by * stupid* gibbons. Mrissa: The basement finishing project is at a s
a future-day Gibbon of Macaulay
Gibbons draws a viable enough distinction between the intricate formalism of Perec's fiction and the "expansiveness" of Pynchon, Wallace, and Vollmann (whose work might be more accurately characterized by what Tom LeClair has called the "art of excess"), but I wonder about the utility of of attributing these differences to national or geographical qualities -- "commensurate with the open spaces and endless distances of our continent. Art and Culture
In the 1770s Edward Gibbon had little difficulty imagining Islamic theology being taught in Oxford and across Britain—if only the battle of Tours-Poitiers in 732 had turned out differently.
War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice. Edward Gibbon
The London zoo has/had hanuman langurs, living in an outdoor exhibit with the sloth bears, and previously muntjac and gibbons too.
The gibbon's actions were guided by an internal representation, which "bridged" his behavior between before and after the distraction. Inside the Executive Brain
The Dublin team was clearly psyched up in preparation for the early exchanges and a Paul Gibbons miscalculation presented them with a scoring opportunity that was smothered by Gavin Dowling.
Many smaller animals have also joined the collection: siamang gibbons, provost squirrels, howler monkey, armadillo and the elusive mona monkeys.
Gibbons also heralds the area's vast reaches of avalanche lilies and white spires of beargrass flowers that flank the park's mountains and ridges. The Seattle Times
We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win. Edward Gibbon
Someone yesterday asked (don't know who it was, as it was an anonymous post, though she did say she was from Canada) what a gibbon is - this is not some obscure English quilting term - this is the stuffed toy on Sarah's postcard - it's a kind of monkey with long arms. Hey, Canadian Girl!
The Penguin edition is not the text made famous by Gibbon's friend Lord Sheffield, but a new (well, 1983) treatment of the manuscripts by Penguin's editor Betty Radice, who steps from behind the curtain and explains her methodology in an interesting introduction. 2009 books poll
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. Edward Gibbon
Here's a quick clip of her explaining to me that after cutting the final speech from The Tempest, she decided to put it back via the song in the end credits, which, she felt, had to be performed by the mighty Beth Gibbons, best known as the willowy, wounded - and occasionally wrathful - voice of Portishead. Michael Vazquez: ON THE 48TH ANNUAL NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL
Austin and James Gibbons were light on their feet as they danced the hornpipe to the joy of all present.
The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event. Edward Gibbon
This usually occurs in gibbons and occasionally in other anthropoid apes.
While hardly an enthusiastic supporter of orthodox Christianity, I think it unfair to attribute the fall of the Western Empire to Christianity though Edward Gibbon certainly seemed to try. America Is NOT Rome
Gibbon was fortunate that his study touched on contemporary anxieties - the enervating effect of luxury, the fragility of civilization.
The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature. Edward Gibbon
The IMF's gloomy statement was dismissed by Prime Mentalist Gibbon Brown who, while acknowledging the UK is in a deep recession, said (again) that he was getting on with the jobbie of protecting hard-working British families in these difficult times, and again attacked the Tories for 'doing nothing' - despite the fact that the opposition can't actually do anything because they're THE OPPOSITION. IMF Report Says UK 'Buggered'
The report counted 42,000 black-shanked douc langurs along with 2,500 yellow-cheeked crested gibbons in Cambodia's Seima Biodiversity Conservation Area, an estimate that represents the largest known populations for both species in the world. Archive 2008-08-01
In this latter respect they recall the gibbon in its effort to walk. Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution
The formal part of the wedding (the vows and rings) came first, and the usual particulars of evensong followed - Rose responses, a psalm to Anglican chant, Gibbons Second Service canticles, and a few hymns.
Of the primates, the endemic species Javan gibbon Hylobates moloch (CR) and Javan leaf monkey Presbytis comata (EN) occur locally along with the endemic silvered leaf monkey P. cristata, while crab-eating macaque Macaca fascicularis (LR) is found throughout the park. Ujung Kulon National Park and Krakatau Nature Reserve, Indonesia
Third in The ‘Fringe’s limited online series of rural/rurban development is Peter MacGibbon, Project Director at 3ci – Carleton Centre for Community Innovation. 2010 April : THE RURBAN FRINGE
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. History and Historians. Edward Gibbon
Gibbons is alone in devoting a whole chapter to chitons as food.
The story of a liberal technocrat jumping into a generational schism is a microcosm of what Fitzgibbonwants to do in Olympia. Joe Fitzgibbon: Young Technocrat Has Eyes on Olympia « PubliCola
Do you feel better or worse for the news that a gibbon is your close cousin? American Scientist Online
The DTR encompasses a variety of rare and endangered animals in abundance such as Rhesus macaque, leaf monkey, pigtail macaque, stumptail macaque, hoolock gibbon, Assamese macaque, slow lorris and giant squirrel. Undefined
These are bears, tigers, tons of birds and of course the black-crested gibbon, which is really the draw of the program. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
Mammal species of conservation significance in this ecoregion include the threatened and endangered Hoolock gibbon (Hylobates hoolock), tiger (Panthera tigris), clouded leopard (Pardofelis nebulosa), leopard (Panthera pardus), sun bear (Ursus malayanus), thamin (Cervus eldii), and gaur (Bos gaurus). Chin Hills-Arakan Yoma montane forests
A piece of advice Ms Gibbons, if you are going to ask the children to name a cuddly toy, then I suggest vetoing the names Chiang Kai-shek, Falun Gong, Wang Dan, Chai Ling, Zhao Changqing, Wuer Kaixi, Dalai Lama, Jiang Zongxiu and Pastor Cai Zhuohua. Archive 2008-02-01
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect. Edward Gibbon
Only five percent of mammals are thought to be socially monogamous, including gibbons, jackals, and tamarins.
Watercolors of traditional village scenes by the late Charlie Gibbons are highly prized.
The Indonesian Consulate General in Osaka will fly four orang-utans, a siamang gibbon and a moloch gibbon to Indonesia on Feb.2 from the New Kansai International Airport outside Osaka, the agency said.
Gibbon's monumental work 'The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire'
But Vanderbilt's parents passed on a shrewd and merciless business sense — his mother once foreclosed on her own widowed daughter's mortgage — and as a young man he quickly found a mentor in Thomas Gibbons, whose battle against a steamboat rival led to the landmark Supreme Court case Gibbons v. Ogden, which struck a blow for antimonopolist laissez-faire principles. The Sage of Steam
Orang-utans and gibbons live high in the canopy. Times, Sunday Times
Rain halted play for 32 minutes in the fourth, one inning before Gibbons broke open the game. USATODAY.com
McDiarmid brings a dryness of delivery and impeccable timing to the role while clearly relishing McGibbon's sardonic script.
Cassiodorus, however, tells us that Odoacer assumed the name of king (nomen regis Odoacer assumpsit), and though Gibbon points out that this may only mean that he assumed the abstract title of a king, without applying it to any particular nation or country, yet that great historian himself calls Odoacer, King of Italy, and shows how he was determined to abolish the useless and expensive office of vicegerent of the emperor. Roman and the Teuton
Only five percent of mammals are thought to be socially monogamous, including gibbons, jackals, and tamarins.
In the very design of Gibbon there is a certain poetical attraction; his work may aptly be described as panoramic, unrolling a vast picture or succession of pictures, too vague in outline and too monotonous in color for minute impressions, yet, on this account, the more remarkable for general effect. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860
I have heard to-day, that Lord and Lady Sheffield, who went to visit Mr. Gibbon at Lausanne, met with great trouble and impertinence at almost every post in France. in Switzerland there is a furious spirit of democracy, or demonocracy. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
Imitating Volney and Gibbon, the narrator imagines a post-lapsarian Britain whose imperial glory has flickered and extinguished. The Ruins of Empire: Nationalism, Art, and Empire in Hemans's Modern Greece
Du nawt be gibbon alkihol tu yur parrots, kittehs, goggies, pinnygigs, mauses, tendrilly plants, oar uvver non-hyoomin lyf forms! Hyperventilation Kitteh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
On Boxing Day at 6am the 150 guests were violently shaken from their sleep by an earth tremor - three hours later the Gibbons sisters would have to save themselves from drowning.
The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events. Edward Gibbon
Gibbon species are able to cross-breed, and often do so in zoos.
Gibbons says the females, or vixens, have a disturbing habit of making bloodcurdling screams in winter.
Gibbons communicate and hold territories by means of loud hooting voices that carry through and over the forest canopy.
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. Edward Gibbon
Gibbon was also careful to do whatever he could to make his work accessible to non-native speakers.
Gibbons comprise four distinct genera (siamangs, hoolocks, crested gibbons and dwarf gibbons), which are less closely related to each other than humans and chimpanzees.
The hoolock gibbon is a frugivorous species, but will also consume immature leaves, flowers, and invertebrates.
JIM GIBBONS, NEVADA: Nevada is a state that needs water, but we don't need it all at once. CNN Transcript Jan 6, 2008
Gibbons are arboreal apes who live in the tropical rain forests of southeast Asia.
What comes from the roof," may not be very intelligible; still _roof_ is the word in the original edition of Gibbon, where it corresponds to _toit_ in Notes and Queries, Number 54, November 9, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
One of Sumatra's single largest remaining blocks of lowland forest, Tesso Nilo is also home to a wide range of wildlife, including elephants, tigers, gibbons and tapirs.
This just in: IN light of news that British teacher Gillian Gibbons has been spared the lash and sentenced to 15 days in a Sudanese choky for naming a teddy in an improper way, Anorak looks at the position of teddy bears in society. The teddy bear teacher is sentenced to 15 days in prison.
Among the ancestor of the last, he searches for the common progenitors, from which again two branches started -- on the one hand the ignoble branches of the catarrhine species of apes, always remaining lower in {44} development, to which also belong the anthropomorphous apes, like the orang outang and gibbon in Asia, the gorilla and chimpanzee in Africa; on the other hand, that branch which represents the ascent of animals to man. The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality
An edited version later broadcast on the then pirate radio station Radio Kilkenny resulted in a strong protest from Jim Gibbons and his family.
Georgian prose, raised from early Georgian "drabness" by the efforts of Johnson, Gibbon, and Burke, but not proceeding to the extremes of any of the three, was still the academic standard; but when a certain freedom on the one side, and a certain grace and colour on the other, were being taken from the new experiments of nineteenth-century prose proper. Matthew Arnold
So if you looked at the animal you might say that it resembled a siamang or an agile gibbon on steroids! On the trail of the orang pendek, Sumatra's mystery ape | Richard Freeman
The Silver Swan is a madrigal that many of us have sung, but it is unlikely that Gibbons would have minded hearing it played as an instrumental piece - he himself suggested that his madrigals could by played by viols instead.
To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor. Edward Gibbon
We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win. Edward Gibbon
They come to hear the call of the hoolock gibbon and to follow the pugmarks of the elusive snow leopard. Times, Sunday Times
Gibbon's monumental work 'The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire'
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. Edward Gibbon
Without interfering with the ape, the researchers used a forceplate to record the forces exerted by the gibbon's feet as it leapt, and two high speed cameras to record details of its body position, and the angles of its legs, body and arms. his revealed that the gibbon uses four distinct modes of leaping, categorised as the orthograde single footed take-off, the orthograde two footed take-off, the orthograde squat jump and the pronograde single footed take off. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
On Isle Grand Terre, LSU researcher Richard Gibbons saw a black-bellied plover, a skinny-legged shorebird, with oil on its face. In Louisiana, wildlife shows effects of gulf oil spill
Primate species are gibbons, langurs, lorises and macaques.
Gibbon was also careful to do whatever he could to make his work accessible to non-native speakers.
He will also reproduce period fireplace surrounds, ceiling rosettes, and freestanding carvings in the manner of Grinling Gibbons.
Gibbon, who describes his case with special minuteness, most uncandidly represents it as affording an average specimen of the style in which condemned Christians were treated. The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution
Over the years, the temple has became a famous sanctuary for tigers, deer, boars, peacocks, fowl, gibbons and horses.
Oct. 11th, 2009 at 1: 03 AM reading_gibbon: Chapter VI: Septimius Severus, Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and taxation Gibbon VI
At worst, Gibbons makes a nice platoon bat, and has been able to get by in right field, and play well at first base.
The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise. Edward Gibbon
The Silver Swan is a madrigal that many of us have sung, but it is unlikely that Gibbons would have minded hearing it played as an instrumental piece - he himself suggested that his madrigals could be played by viols instead.
Baby gibbons are extremely cute, cuddly and adorable and extremely attractive to poachers and black marketers.
Hoolock Gibbon (Bunopithecus hoolock hoolock) is the only species of ape to be found in India.
(Gibbon tells us, in footnote 47 to chapter III, that he actually gave public philosophy lectures, as Emperor, in Rome, Greece and Asia; presumably we have here some of the raw materials for those lectures.) October Books 21) Year's Best SF 7, edited by David G. Hartwell
The Fakim Sanctuary, close to the Myanmar border, is inhabited by tigers and hoolock gibbons.
But every animal part is traded, from serow tongues (consumed to treat headaches) and goral legs (ground into a liniment for joint ailments) to the skins of white-browed gibbons and capped leaf monkeys (made into shoulder bags).
The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise. Edward Gibbon
They began by sequencing the SEMG2 gene in humans, chimpanzees, pygmy chimpanzees, gorillas, orang-utans, gibbons, macaques, colobus monkeys, and spider monkeys.
The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature. Edward Gibbon
Gibbon species are able to cross-breed, and often do so in zoos.
Any self-respectin 'animal would sooner starve before doin' that, or go t 'beggin' like our sticker-hiding friend, the gibbon. A Corridor in the Asylum
Nevertheless, it still harbors several mammals and birds of conservation significance, including the Owston's banded civet (Hemigalus owstoni), white-cheeked gibbon (Hylobates leucogenys), red-shanked douc langur (Pygathrix nemaeus), and Francois's leaf monkey (Semnopithecus francoisi). Northern Vietnam lowland rain forests
(1730-6) -1755 OW hylobatine gibbon OW crotaline rattlesnake hystricine porcupine VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1
The site covers an area of thousands of acres and was first observed three years ago by Mr. Gibbons when on a field trip in the area.
The siamang is a black-furred gibbon native to forests in Malaysia and Indonesia's Sumatra province. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes. Edward Gibbon
Gibbons failed to see the commercial value of his discovery.
But at 15, she was apprenticed to a tailoress Miss Fitzgibbon and there, over five years, she served her time and learned her craft.
He had been cadged for drinks before by the old cannibal, and the sternest tambo Grief and McTavish had laid down was the one forbidding alcohol to the natives of New Gibbon. THE JOKERS OF NEW GIBBON
But St. Martin inclines to agree with Gibbon, note, vi. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
As a research fellow in the 1930s, John Gibbon witnessed the death of a young woman after an attempt at emergency surgical thrombectomy, and his development of the heart-lung bypass pump oxygenator was a response to that experience.
Unmarried, very short, plump early in life, fat later, overdressed, vain, and watchful, Gibbon was easy to make fun of, and though he belonged to Johnson's Club, he was not a clubbable man.
We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win. Edward Gibbon
Several other mammal species are found in this ecoregion, including numerous primate species such as several leaf-monkeys, siamang (Hylobates syndactylus), the region's largest gibbon, wild dog (Cuon alpinus), sun bear (Ursus malayanus), and clouded leopard (Pardofelis nebulosa). Sumatran montane rain forests
The Barbarian squadron is the all-woman piloted champ of the fleet, in no small part thanks to their mechanic Mac, who is an uplifted gibbon (part of a tribe of sentient apes that mixes with human society). Boing Boing
Numerous primate species live in these forests, including the long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis), pig-tailed macaque (M. nemestrina), and siamang (Hylobates syndactylus), Sumatra's largest gibbon. Sumatran freshwater swamp forests
His main claim to fame was that he made the Chiquita guitar that Billy Gibbons endorsed about ten, fifteen years ago.
Without interfering with the ape, the researchers used a forceplate to record the forces exerted by the gibbon's feet as it leapt, and two high speed cameras to record details of its body position, and the angles of its legs, body and arms. his revealed that the gibbon uses four distinct modes of leaping, categorised as the orthograde single footed take-off, the orthograde two footed take-off, the orthograde squat jump and the pronograde single footed take off. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
Those species were chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan, gibbon, macaque and owl monkey.
I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes. Edward Gibbon
While histories of turntablism usually credit Bronx DJ Kool Herc with inventing the modern mix, Gibbons matched him beat for beat, in a different context. Rescuing a Disco Demigod From Oblivion
All-American Zoltan Mesko's likely replacement at punter is incoming freshman Will Hagerup, while redshirt freshman Brendan Gibbons will get first crack at the place-kicking job. Around the BigTen Conference
The whole thing seethed, illusion and allusion swinging from branch to branch like gibbons in the treetops.
Oh did I laugh She was known as the gibbon for while after that My ex wanted to know if CVR (T) came in right-hand drive for use in the UK. Army Rumour Service
Primate species include the rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) and Hoolock gibbon (Hylobates hoolock). Irrawaddy dry forests
What's happened here to rising starlets Patricia Fagan and Brandon McGibbon?
Wildlife: A female hoolock gibbon named ‘Siloni’ who was found chained in a temple at Silonijan in Assam province in 2002 was purchased at Rs. 500 by the Director of Kaziranga Wildlife Sanctuary S. N.Buagohain and raised her in the precincts of his quarters for a year before being handed over to Kaziranga authorities for training her to live in the wild. Front Page: India: 14th January 2009
European planters, and the negroes of Africa, have no doubt embellished with many features taken from the description of the manners of the orang-otang, * the gibbon, the jocko or chimpanzee, and the pongo, followed us, during five years, from the northern to the southern hemisphere. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
Only five percent of mammals are thought to be socially monogamous, including gibbons, jackals, and tamarins.
To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor. Edward Gibbon
Gibbon's monumental work 'The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire'
I affected a combination of the styles of Macaulay and Gibbon, the staccato antitheses of the former and the rolling sentences and genitival endings of the latter; and I stuck in a bit of my own from time to time. MY EARLY LIFE
What is the dexterous management of the more inartificial historians of Christianity, in exaggerating the numbers of the martyrs, compared to the unfair address with which Gibbon here quietly dismisses from the account all the horrible and excruciating tortures which fell short of death? The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
But neither the antiquarian interest of the seventeenth-century erudites nor the philosophic concerns of the great eighteenth-century historians, such as Montesquieu, Voltaire, Gibbon, HISTORICISM
The work of Bach on the History of the Roman Jurisprudence, with which Gibbon was not acquainted, is far superior to that of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
On the plus side, original Watchmen artist Dave Gibbons has been involved to deodorise the project with a whiff of authenticity. Eurogamer
At first glance I thought I was looking at a cross between a gibbon and a goat.
But all this was only childish prattle in comparison with the daily performances of the big white-handed, and the black hoolock gibbons, now and for several years past residing in our Primate The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations
Male hoolock gibbons are black, while the females are variable in color, ranging through black, grey, and brown, with a white band across the forehead.
I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes. Edward Gibbon
Look at the flat, narrow haunch bones — the long and narrow passage — the coarse, outwardly curved, ischiatic prominences on which the Gibbon habitually rests, and which are coated by the so-called “callosities,” dense patches of skin, wholly absent in the Gorilla, in the Chimpanzee, and in the Essays
Constantinople, to use the words of Gibbon, 'which had defied the power of Chosroes, the chazan, and the caliphs, was irretrievably subdued by the arms of Mohammed II. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 419 Volume 17, New Series, January 10, 1852
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. Edward Gibbon
Wildlife include tigers, elephants, deer, Sumatran rhinoceros, binturong or bear cats, chirping drongos, hornbills, argus pheasants, and white handed gibbons, the only ape species in the region.

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