The rarest of them all

• Autores: Sam Turvey
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3081, 2016, págs. 30-31
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Turvey talks about Hainan gibbon. Visiting naturalists in the 19th century described the apes as rare. They were hunted heavily. Boiling a whole animal for a few days until it was reduced to a hairy paste was said to produce a potent traditional medicine.