Gibbons are frugivores, which means that they prefer to eat fruit above other types of food. When fruit is sparse, they will also eat leaves, blossoms, stems, and the occasional egg or insect if they can get their hands on them.

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The Zoo’s gibbons, called Ronnie and Bradley, are siamangs who eat a variety of foods including leafy greens, broccoli, green peppers, papayas, bananas, and monkey chow. They enjoy placing mealworms on each other and then grooming them off so that they can eat them. Once a week, they also get to eat a hard-boiled egg, which is a favorite treat of theirs, as a reward for showing up to training sessions.

Animals and Insects

Gibbons thrive on the plentiful fruit trees that grow across their tropical territory, and they are particularly fond of figs. In addition to leaves and insects, they will occasionally supplement their diet with them.

In contrast to other primates, gibbons are monogamous (a rare trait among them), and they live in family groups that are made up of an adult couple and their young children. Each member of the family will establish a territory and defend it with loud, eerie calls that can be heard for kilometers around throughout the forest. Mated partners, and even entire families, will join together to sing long, intricate songs in unison. Some species have even developed enormous throat pouches in order to increase the volume of their sounds. Gibbons eat meat, mice, and insects.

Plants and Fruits

Gibbons are omnivores, which means they consume everything (eating plants and meat). During the day, they search for food in the forests, consuming fruit (which accounts for approximately 75% of their total diet), leaves, flowers, seeds, tree bark, and fragile plant shoots, among other things. Gibbons also eat insects, spiders, bird eggs, and young birds, among other things.

Often, gibbons will drink water by dipping their furry hands into the water or rubbing their hands against moist leaves and then slurping up the water off their furry hands. Gibbons have been known to do this while dangling above the water from a narrow tree branch in several areas of the world. Gibbons also eat bananas, fruit plants, and grass.