VMD 512: Zoo/Wild Animal Breeding, Management, Nutrition and Health Care (1+1)

LORIS, HOOLOCK GIBBON, CHIMPANZEE AND MARMOSET

Loris

• Round-head with large and round eyes.
• Stout in body and limb with a coat of dense fur.
• Head and shoulders may be silvery white, creamy or ash grey. Brown stripe is very distinctive marking the middle line of its back and terminating on the crown.
• Distinct are the brown circles round it’s lustrous and owl-like eyes.
• Two species are there

Hoolock gibbon (Hyalobates sp. )

• This is also called as white-browed gibbon.
• Only gibbon in India.
• Arms are much longer than the legs and a tailless body
• Males and young females are black.
• Able to stand erect like man and walks with hands extended for balancing activity.
• Each family hunts within its own territory & are diurnal.

Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes )

• Exotic animal
• Intelligent animal
• Alert
• Needs always enrichment measures

New world primates

• Marmoset