长臂猿的鸣叫行为研究进展

Research Progress of Gibbons Singing Behavior

长臂猿(Hylobetidae)是现生猿类中体型最小的类群,现主要生活在东南亚热带、亚热带森林中,由于栖息地被破坏,长臂猿的数量急剧减少。对长臂猿的鸣叫行为研究进展进行了综述,分析了长臂猿鸣叫的时间、结构和声谱特征以及鸣叫的主要功能和假说,总结了影响鸣叫的因素,并对今后长臂猿鸣叫行为的研究进行了展望。

Gibbon （Hylobetidae） is the smallest groups in modern apes, now live mainly in southeast Asian tropical and subtropical forest, due to habitat destruction, the number of gibbon sharply reduced. The research progress of gibbons singing behavior was reviewed, the gibbon songs time, structure and sound spectrum characteristics, the main function of singing and the hypothesis were analyzed, the factors that influ- ence the chirping were summarized, the singing behavior of gibbons in the future was forecasted.