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A forest ranger, Xiong Youfu has spent a long time chasing gibbons in southwest China's Yunnan Province. Xiong's son, who is in elementary school, is intrigued by the gibbons. The boy always wants to go into the mountains to meet the patriarch in black. The boy's interest in gibbons makes Xiong somehow relieved, and creates a unique bond between father and son.
About 'Journeys in Nature': Tracking the Gibbon
The western black-crested gibbon, which lives in southwest China's Yunnan Province, Laos and Vietnam, is a critically endangered species in the country. More people become interested in the species as China pays greater attention to animal protection. Follow our Journeys in Nature series to learn more about the gibbon family in the deep forest.
For more:
Tracking the Gibbon | Episode 1: Following the sound
Tracking the Gibbon | Episode 2: Gibbon chaser
Tracking the Gibbon | Episode 3: A generation of gibbon chasers
Tracking the Gibbon | Episode 4: Memories of chasing gibbons
(Cover image a still from a video shot by CGTN Nature's film crew)
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