gibbon : Lassie

GAIN ID numberGAIN ID number
We assinged GAIN original IDs based on the domestic studbook numbers.:0006    （2012-02-03Updated）
International studbook number: -

Name Lassie
Sex Male
Species or Subspecies Hylobates lar
Date of birth  
Place of birth unknown
Current facility ​Institute for the Evolutionary Origins of Human Behavior
Father  
Mother  
Feature
[Japanese studbook number:H.lar74]
[P.R.I. KyotoUniv.H.l#10]
The individual is covered with bright brown hair and has white hair on the back of his limbs. He has large eyes. He would look at various places by tilting a hanging stainless mirror. Affiliates called him various names because they thought he had no name. His name, however, was found to be Lassie in files organized after his death.
Character
The individual hates most humans. He played with another gibbon pair's children through a fence.
Life history
1976.01.27
2002.03.22
Photographs
 
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Research results using samples from this individual
 
References
  1. Inoue-Nakamura, N. (1997). Mirror Self-recognition in Nonhuman Primates: A Phylogenetic Approach. Japanese Psychological Research, 39, 266 275.

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