Special Stamps:Gibbons

• 来源期刊: 今日中国：英文版
• 学科: 体育
• 关键词: 邮票 《长臂猿》 体形特征 生活地域
• 年，卷（期）: 2003,（2）
• 页码范围: 59
• 页数: 1页
• 分类号: G894.1

摘要

<正> In December 2002, the State Postal Bureau issued a set of four special stamps featuring gibbons.There are nine species of gibbon, mainly distributed through Southeast Asia. China's Yunnan and Hainan provinces, and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region are home to four of these species. This 0.4-0.6-meter-tall primate's most distinguishing feature is its unusually long forelimbs. It lives in groups, in tropical rain forests and subtropi-