"We were very close, so you can imagine, when I got the news, 'devastated' doesn't begin to describe it," Ms Gibbon's mother, Andrea Cali-Gibbon, told the New York Daily News. She said that her ...

The star has seen first-hand how challenging it is to cope with loved ones that have Alzheimer's: Gibbons' mother Jean passed in 2008 from the disease and her grandmother also died from it.

When they are first born, baby gibbons cling tightly to their mother’s midsection, almost like a belt. This allows the female to hold the baby while sitting with her knees up—a typical gibbon ...

At Kadoorie wildlife centre, staff care for a baby gibbon that had recently been discovered ... "Very likely the hunter shot and killed its mother and then grabbed the baby for the trade." ...