Rare yellow-cheeked gibbon turns up in a residential area in Đà Nẵng
On February 8, the Hòa Vang Forest Protection Unit in Đà Nẵng city, central Vietnam, said it had found and captured a male yellow-cheeked gibbon in a residential area.
Earlier, on February 4, the unit received a report from local residents that a wild animal had turned up in a residential area of Nam Yên village, the former Hòa Bắc commune (in the former Hòa Vang district).
The Hòa Vang Forest Protection Unit worked with local authorities and residents to capture the animal.
The yellow-cheeked gibbon found in a residential area of the former Hòa Vang district, Đà Nẵng city.
Because yellow-cheeked gibbons are not found in Đà Nẵng, the animal is awaiting the completion of procedures to be released back into its proper habitat
An inspection confirmed that the animal was a yellow-cheeked gibbon (scientific name Nomascus gabriellae), a member of the primate order (Primates).
The gibbon is an adult male in normal health, weighing 3 kg.
According to the Hòa Vang Forest Protection Unit, the yellow-cheeked gibbon does not naturally occur in Đà Nẵng, and the captured animal appeared on its own in the residential area of Nam Yên village. Its origin is unknown and no owner could be identified.
Because the species is a forest animal listed as endangered and rare, and handling it falls outside the unit's authority, the Hòa Vang Forest Protection Unit reported the case and handed the gibbon over to the city's Forest Protection Department, which will complete the legal procedures for its rescue and release back into the wild.
The city's Forest Protection Department has now received the animal. However, since yellow-cheeked gibbons do not live in Đà Nẵng, the department is completing the necessary paperwork and drawing up a rescue plan as soon as possible.
The yellow-cheeked gibbon is a protected species; hunting, trading, keeping or consuming protected species is illegal in Vietnam.
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