Dublin Zoo has announced the birth of a newborn Siamang Gibbon.
The young gibbon joins mother Cahaya and father Luca along with 2-year-old brother Sanuk and has been observed healthily bonding with Cahaya.
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Siamang gibbons are native to mountain and lowland forests on the island of Sumatra, in Malaysia, and small parts of Thailand. This species of gibbons are classified as Endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
Luca arrived to Dublin Zoo in 2018 and is twenty-five-years' old, Cahaya sixteen-years' old had been at the Zoo slightly longer arriving in 2014. The pair have a strong connection according to the Zoo and welcomed their first baby Sanuk in 2023.
Both Cahaya and Luca are genetically significant to the European Endangered Species Programme, making this birth an important milestone for both Dublin Zoo's conservation efforts and the future of the species.
Ciaran McMahon, Team Leader at Dublin Zoo, spoke on the arrival stating, “The team at Dublin Zoo are thrilled at the birth of this new infant. Our siamang gibbons Cahaya and Luca are such a strong pair and excellent parents to Sanuk, and their new baby is already settling in wonderfully."
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Back in July the Zoo welcomed a "flurry" of new arrivals, including a male eastern bongo, red-necked ostriches, a pair of great curassows and a colony of approximately 15,000 hairy-headed leafcutter ants.
