Category: Meet Our Gibbons

Name: Thai (white-handed gibbons like him are native to Thailand) Sex: Male Mate: Currently single Born: April 9, 2001 Favorite…

Name: Spanky Sex: Male Mate: Currently single Born: October 18, 2005 Favorite food: It’s a tie between mango and watermelon….

Name: Paen Sex: Female Mate: Currently single Born: October 20, 1985 Favorite Food: Sweet Potatoes and Fig Newtons Favorite Activity:…

Name: Mia Sex: Female Mate: Currently Single. Born: October 6, 1991 Favorite food: She’s a good eater overall, but she’ll inhale those…

Name: Maynard Sex: Male Mate: Currently single Born: 2002 (estimated) Favorite food: Papayas. Favorite activity: Hiding things (including himself) in…

Name: Uma Sex: Female Mate: Scrappy Born: September 5, 1985 Favorite food: She’s a good eater when she gets something…

Name: Scrappy (it fits!) Sex: Male Mate: Uma Born: September 8, 1974 Favorite food: All kinds of fruit, like mangos,…

Name: Speedy (named after a veterinarian who undertook the first vasectomies on some of our males; gibbon vasectomies are tricky…

Name: Maui Sex: Male Play – Mate: Speedy Born: December 8, 1990 Favorite food: He likes his baked sweet potatoes…

Name: Louie-Louie Sex: Male Mate: Currently Single.  Born: July 15, 1991 Favorite food: Mangos. Favorite activity: Sunbathing. Louie-Louie came to IPPL…

Name: Palu-Palu (his name was suggested to us by a Hawaiian friend and means “softly-softly” in Hawaiian; it’s a somewhat…

Name: Jade Sex: Female Mate: Palu-Palu Born: 1984 Favorite food: Anything salty (peanuts, crackers—also bugs and lizards) Favorite activity: Flirting…

Name: Peppy         ADOPT ME! Sex: Male Mate: N/A Born: January 23, 1979 Favorite food: Eggplant (Peppy is among…

Name: Gus Sex: Male Mate: Currently single Born: Before 1990 Favorite food: Unusual things: canned beets, black olives, and the…

Name: Tong (her name means “gold” in Thai and reflects the color of her fur, but around IPPL she’s also…

Name: Gibby Sex: Male Mate: Tong Born: Wild-caught around 1961 Favorite food: Dots (OK, that’s not a food, but these…

Name: Gary Sex: Male Mate: Currently single Born: 1975 or 1976 Favorite food: Fresh, raw beets, which we like to…

Name: Ziggy Sex: Male Mate: Erin Born: August 30, 1986 Favorite food: He is not that particular, but like a…

Name: Erin Sex: Female Mate: Ziggy Born: February 28, 1985 Favorite food: Bananas and sweet potatoes (like her mate Ziggy)….

Name: Nicholas Sex: Male Mate: Elsa Born: April 18, 1987 Favorite food: He’s not a picky eater, but like many…

Name: Elsa Sex: Female Mate: Nicholas Born: 1991 Favorite food: Leafy greens, such as Romaine lettuce (like Helen and Peppy,…

Name: Donny Sex: Male Mate: Currently Single Born: October 15, 1989 Favorite food: Bamboo leaves from freshly-cut stalks, grown on…

Name: Robbie Sex: Male Mate: Dianne Born: January 20, 1994 Favorite food: Cantaloupe (but he’s a good eater in general)….

Name: Dianne (named after long-time IPPL board member Dianne   Taylor-Snow) Sex: Female Mate: Robbie Born: 1995 Favorite food: Honeydew—though she…

Name: Whoop-Whoop Sex: Male Mate: Courtney Born: Before 2003 Favorite food: Whatever he can get to before Courtney elbows him…

Name: Courtney (we named her after a young friend of Shirley’s who showed a great interest in primates)     ADOPT ME!…

Name: Michael Sex: Male Mate: Cathy Born: 1989 (estimated) Favorite food: Honeydew melons. Favorite activity: Perching in an aerial runway…

Name: Cathy (named after a long-time friend of IPPL who has been active for years helping animals everywhere) Sex: Female…

Name: Chloe Sex: Female Mate: Blackie Born: Unknown Favorite food: We think it’s bananas; she eats them so fast she…

Name: Blackie Sex: Male Mate: Chloe Born: 1958 (estimated) Favorite food: Raisin bread. Favorite activity: Dancing. Blackie and his late…

Name: Shanti (her name means “peace” in Sanskrit; she was named “Lost’ before she came to IPPL, but we wanted…

Name: Arun Rangsi (a Thai Buddhist name meaning “The Rising Sun of Dawn”)     ADOPT ME! Sex: Male Mate: Shanti Born:…

Name: Elizabeth Sex: Female Mate: Ahimsa Born: June 16, 1984 Favorite food: Figs. Favorite activity: Sucking her thumb (like Peppy)….

Name: Ahimsa (a Sanskrit name meaning “non-violence towards all living things”) Sex: Male Mate: Elizabeth Born: November 23, 1985 Favorite food:…