As the first sunshine wakes the best singers of Mount Bawangling, Hainan black-crested gibbons begin their morning calls. Each member in the gibbon family is using their howling sounds to compose a swelling woodland chorus. In the new series of CGTN Nature, let's step into the world of the Hainan black-crested gibbons.

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In the Bawangling Series, we are going to unfold the secret life of Hainan black-crested gibbon, one of man's closest relatives living in the Bawangling National Nature Reserve, China's southern island province of Hainan. The number of the Hainan black-crested gibbon has decreased mainly in the 1970s due to habitat loss. With a population of merely 29, the tropical rainforest of Bawangling National Nature Reserve is their only habitat.

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