Just like great apes, gibbons are also very intelligent and all of the primates here at Nashville Zoo participate in a voluntary operant conditioning training programs where they learn many behaviors that help keepers with the daily care of the gibbons. Gibbons have a unique form of locomotion called brachiation

Are gibbons smarter than monkeys?

features; the gibbons are called lesser apes. The great apes are much more intelligent than monkeys and gibbons.

Are gibbons friendly?

Gibbons are not very dangerous animals. They are quite friendly and wise apes who usually do not attack humans unless they feel threatened and scared.