Siamang Gibbons howling at Miami Metrozoo

The Siamang is a tailless, arboreal, black furred gibbon native to the forests of Malaysia, Thailand, and Sumatra. The largest of the lesser apes, the Siamang can be twice the size of other gibbons, reaching 1 m in height, and weighing up to 14 kg.
The Siamang is distinctive for two reasons. The first is that two fingers on each hand are fused together. The second is the large "gular sac" (found in both male and female of the species), which is a throat pouch that can be inflated to the size of its head, allowing the Siamang to make loud resonating calls or songs.

[@LoganProductions]

Teacher leaves the room The class:

[@allstarpterosaur850]

I can totally relate. I’m in high school. This is basically every day in algebra class.

[@neptune8750]

True

[@three.onefourtwo]

So true

[@cube8088]

The class turns into a zoo

[@anglingnvirginia1346]

😂 only in the city

[@indrathemaggot]

This totally brings me back to my childhood. I was living in a town next to a Sumatra's Bukit Barisan Forest. Every morning we could heard the Siamang the forest, they're miles away but we still can hear them Sometimes, my friends and i, when exploring the hills near the town, we often stopped just to listen then imitate them. It was a fantastic time for me I'm not living in the town anymore, but once a year i usually go back to visit my parent. Now it's hard to heard any Siamang singing, the forest had turned into a palm oil plantation. I've tried to explored the same hills we used to go, but nothing i can hear

[@JumpSonic]

Sweet and sad story.

[@theevilasylum3514]

Indra Purwita and y'all had sex right ? 😂

[@Ryan-co9xc]

Gee thanks for the depression

[@foxcheetah6035]

I don't mean to be that guy but... says a lot about land development, doesn't it?

[@grandmap3389]

😢😢😢😢

[@Skonkatron69]

0:03 me and my friends when I land a bottle

[@lindalandry7503]

What a lame life

[@alitsuki]

Lol I’m crying of laughter! 😂👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻🤣

[@voxels5470]

this is an ancient meme comment.

[@DrRalls]

This is relatable XD lmao This is so sad can we hit 2 likes

[@moisttowlette1247]

@@voxels5470 A living fossil

[@packle-tackle1906]

0:48 lookin like the damn half-life symbol

[@systemshocker2875]

Lambda?

[@45hr52]

The lambdom symbol the symbol representing the half-life of a particle Or a game

[@firmlygraspi1]

Sounds like my wife *laugh track* *sitcom jingle* *hysterical weeping* *gunshots*

[@nakiado]

Wilhelm Scream.

[@Kitties_are_pretty]

*Wee ooo weee ooo wee ooo*

[@kennethwardingley9209]

That's my war cry

[@nickandbarry1777]

This is where you proceed to hit a women after taking a bite out of your disgustingly large hamburger driving in your big truck, you notice her body tumble stop the car and get out. You don’t know what to do in the rain but you begin to hear her move...

[@RetrofanAj]

firmlygraspi1 ok boomer

[@maisieturner1838]

0:22 "Ehhhh!" Such cute monkeys

[@lingsy81]

I just heard them in the jungle yesterday.. Man they are really vocal and loud..

[@marjanmarjan8529]

السلام

[@chloeevans2569]

Wow I bet!

[@waluigi1711]

hope you got out of the jungle, sending thoughts and prayers. X

[@Rhys-Lightning]

This is what it sounds like when characters in Banjo-Kazooie talk to each other

[@ElefantPenisJr]

A man of culture I see

[@suzzannamaniest]

the other things I love from Gibbons is they're monogamous. They are partners. Including howling together to mark their teretory.

[@tessafroese992]

I just hope they don’t puncture their gular sac.

[@HappyQuailsLC]

We naturally think about vocal cord development when considering the capabilities for vocalization in an animal, but this reminds us how lung volume and the ability to control the exhalation of air must also have a lot to do with vocalization as well.

[@citrusblast4372]

Thats how wind instruments work, you control the air flow with your lips and it changes the pitch, while holding down the keys

[@8o8g91]

What? You can't vocalize without exhaling or using your lungs smartass... ofcourse people consider this wtf are you on lol.

[@alisonabrooks]

who asked

[@john-maryknight2012]

​@@alisonabrooksI did.

[@YaroslavnaKadulina]

In my humble opinion there is beauty in this. They are not howling, they are singing...

[@ktmexplorations]

When a freshman makes one small mistake on his first day in high school

[@SanAntonioJoker]

when you're held back

[@MrSwayzy]

00:01 the pause before he shouts😅

[@HfzRog]

This sound reminds me when I was childhood living at Genting Highlands, every morning in school will hear these Siamangs howling and almost everyday.. damn I missed them so much .. haha

[@Just_Rxbin]

Do you know Indra AP you two basically posted the same comment

[@esposexy2210]

ADOLPH SNIFFLER

[@shashikaru123]

I swear aliens are dropping new species everyday

[@norml6874]

And this is my favorite kind of ape: the frog

[@jasonm7973]

Stolen comment

[@skmc_1999]

I've always found that noise hilarious.

[@butterturtle56]

Me and my friend when we are drunk

[@Arbo317]

No Drink me

[@cherylhickok3565]

Clorox Bleach *Drinks you*

[@kennethwardingley9209]

It's my war cry

[@josh2232]

Esteban *My friends and I dumbass

[@camilasegobia1253]

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[@klaas-jangrafe3115]

I witnessed this vocal show yesterday in Burgers Zoo in the Netherlands. It was very impressive!

[@seanmarvn]

"they are communicating" if you can get that refrence then you are a legend

[@djgreen7453]

i want to be one of these just so i have an excuse to make noise

[@jabbersart6218]

i just found out today at the zoo that Siamang are code red if they escape they're in league with tigers and lions....they can actually rip a humans arms clean off. Makes looking at them totally uncomfortable now

[@synisterfluffball4312]

wOW.

[@gravegums]

Thanks for ruining the video for me

[@dragonvarine7553]

Yeah, any primate can, dont fuck with them.

[@debradaniels3989]

Now you made me uncomfortable to look at team

[@brain_apostrophe_t]

I mean a household domesticated dog could kill you if it needed to, but we dont worry about that

[@justgabe538]

Teacher partners a boy and girl together for a project The class:

[@lindenarden667]

I'm having a flashback to an old Sesame Street skit.

[@tawon1984]

0:00-0:06 Do you smelllllll what the Gibbon is COOKN!!

[@staropener3191]

No one: Literally no one: Siamang Gibbon's neck: *E X P A N D*

[@IRUKANJI]

The siamang gibbon is the "Sound of the Jungle" to me growing up. Every game or anything that depicted a jungle had that gibbon Great Call play somewhere to let you know it was a jungle.

[@gladiusbladeofthenorth9939]

I remember hearing this in Zoo Tycoon 2......

[@YusakuJon3]

Each of those Siamangs have a unique call pattern, I see. And it looks like they shut down the neighbors within a few minutes. "We'll show you what 'singing' is!"

[@rotesholz5382]

I am enjoy that sound every morning & afternoon in my town. Kerinci Sumatera Indonesia (the siamang natural wild habitat). The Siamangs are very adorable animal. The Forest fire in my country especially Sumatera & Kalimantan island is really really make Siamang & Orangutan threatened. I am worry about that. I don't know why the human can be so cruel. 😭 --- Save our forest , save our animals, save our earth.

[@LAFaLittle]

They are adorable until they rip your arms off for walking in their territory

[@maximuscervantes5546]

@@LAFaLittle gibbons are like 26 lbs, literally harmless and orangutans are actually friendly and laidback unless u intend to harm it, ur thinking of chimps

[@LAFaLittle]

@@maximuscervantes5546 ah right, thanks mate

[@li6htw4y46]

@@LAFaLittle gibbons are really light weight they just got a lot of strength and are mobile so I mean if you kick the hell out of them and make sure they don’t get on you anyone can fuck em up but if they climb on your back which probably wouldn’t be hard for them they might rip your shit off

[@bigboi2149]

​@@li6htw4y46 you don't know what you're talking about, do you?

[@typhoon8711]

0:15 - 0:23 That sounds like a sonar of an allied destroyer detecting a U boat

[@BoobzTwo]

Very cool, I just love to watch some relatives swinging around in our own first environment, the canopy. It really gets more 'sapient like' if you find a bunch of Bonobos peacefully going about their daily interactions. When I used to think about reincarnation, I immediately thought of Bonobos, wonder why hahaha.

[@JihadAlAnsari]

The quality for a 2009 youtube vid is amazing

[@zakazany1945]

Back in 2009 I watched a lot of foot fetish videos with such quality or even higher

[@zakazany1945]

On KZbin, I mean

[@Sbrabson04]

Lol I always thought someone was making the sound effects when their throats blow up haha

[@sjlove2bird]

my 2 parrots are mesmerized by this video

[@crkcrk702]

When you go see an animal you don’t even understand : I’m sure the gibbon is trying to say it’s his territory with his call, and being surrounded by other screams of people staring at him doesn’t reassure him... at least they are two

[@username4441]

big fan of the siamang. love their work.

[@Tailikku1]

I literally just saw this in my primates class today!

[@centralbeardeddragon103]

is there even such thing as a primate class

[@mitunacaptor7899]

@@centralbeardeddragon103 multiple years chain, someone respond to this in 2 or 3 years

[@unluckychucky3979]

When the teacher leaves the class room for 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000.1 seconds

[@willowgunnerthelunaticbio-5933]

This video is 10 years old, yet it looks like this video came from 2015

[@DreKC]

That's enough Anthropology for today..

[@mynameisasecret593]

They're so cute and fascinating.

[@kashmirgrl]

I love these guys! Could watch and listen to them for hours....way cool!

[@clownymoosebean]

I'm here because Zach hates these things, but Chris loves them.

[@gogogomez51]

the way they sound is badass thank god we have animal's like this on our planet !!!

[@experliosrs8252]

wow your comment is before 11 years ago i hope you are okay sir let me know how is good :)

[@DanSolo0119]

I remember these guys. My parents took me to this zoo and I could hear them from anywhere there.

[@Trutsyajehebdbdb]

I like how people in the zoo think that they are superior to apes while they are the closest relatives of us in animal kingdom.

[@sarosch]

Barred owls make this same sound on a much more owly scale!

[@monsterversemanticore7061]

I really like siamangs!

[@elipost1703]

Thank you Schlatt for bringing me here

[@0daadaadaa0]

Thank you SovietWomble, now I know how gibbons actually sound like. XD

[@destinybok613]

Squidward: will you two shut it Gibbons: * attacks and beats up squidward

[@Kaitlyn_sp00ky]

*underrated comment*

[@CalvinatorGaming]

Imagine watching this video, but with the Halo Theme Song. 😂

[@AlexDeLarge1]

Sounds like music to me. Rhythmic in a very human way.

[@Kronosaur0s]

Zoo Tycoon 2 AMBIENT SOUND LoL

[@helloVorld1212]

can you do that josh?

[@dannibruh6366]

i love them so much

[@HappyCetacean]

Education at it's finest

[@peteromalley9124]

We heard these guys off in the distance in Kao Sokh National Park in Thailand but never saw them.

[@jbballer]

my new favorite animal. I keep watching this and laughing every time

[@jupiter9099]

This is that sound you heard in jungle levels/games as a kid, but had no idea what animal was making the noise.

[@humanskull182]

I feel the sudden urge to join in with the howling

[@crackedhammer4612]

We must preserve this species no matter what

[@letiramos4178]

that's bad ass .planet Earth animals are a trip . lol beautiful.

[@TheTaylorhorton]

They seem like they'd be fun at ragers.

[@camhux]

i love these dudes so much

[@user-jz3ro1eb9o]

0:03 when its 3 am and my friend just said ABOMALAKAKA for the 56th time

[@inkshermit9055]

Zach from Sleepy Cabin S2 E5 recommended looking this up. That nasally man put it the best way possible...

[@bookymydoor]

1:37 The Ancient One

[@BrianFaure1]

0:02 sounds like a rooster

[@muskoka91]

That's a messed up rooster

[@nickcathers4654]

This is why you wake up in the morning 0:03

[@childeater7327]

these are my spirit animals

[@belamorkanal]

0:03 Siamang Gibbon pog!

[@Royalpalmgeneral]

Sounds like Elmo laughing!

[@errorno.1228]

Sounds like me when my brain goes *Hey, make random noise so you can annoy your family.*

[@schizophreniccynic9141]

When you call someone out on their shit and your friends be in the back like..........

[@beansinmyurethra9035]

I completely understand why Zach wanted to penstab their throat pouches

[@JohnSmith_1920]

"Big Sac Monkey go oooooooh" says Chip

[@ushernotasher8964]

This is my war cry when i am drunk.

[@aurabrucel3133]

Que lindos, fantásticos, no me canso de verlos.

[@overpricedhealthcare]

*female player joins the server and starts talking in voice chat* all the male players in the server:

[@angelaflt6919]

Wow soon as I think I've seen it all I see something like these guys!

[@joeman840]

Those kids need their own exhibit

[@sarahross3636]

Me laughing at my crush's joke

[@tuser8]

very cool gibbon video

[@MushyPo]

I like to believe we evolved from these

[@theropen1997]

Not these primates specifically, we evolved from hominids like Australopithecus.

[@shashikaru123]

Who needs fire alarms use gibbons

[@Bonkwonkgonk]

First here from Mitchell and the robots comments

[@shintahapsari7109]

Is the Ferry good Moment, Iam not Borred wath every Morning & you child ferry happy & Funny 😊😀🥰 👍

[@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess]

their shoulders and back are so built

[@justarandomclonetrooperwit8119]

Nobody: The comments: 100000%memes 45% scientific facts about the siamang 2% childhood memories of some random Malaysian dudes

[@justarandomclonetrooperwit8119]

Siamang gibbons: drake and kanye west That random white gibbon: meek mill

[@tiagoprieto7072]

Who else came here to watch this after watching the Mitchells vs the Machines?

[@tristanking3592]

When a highschooler gets called to the front office

[@spencerreborn7]

My friend Pedro laughs like this

[@johnb.6468]

Sounds like NYC streets sheeeeeiiiiiiitttttt

[@Wally_darling-thewriter]

me and my friends playing horror games:

[@jamesd2128]

Imagine if these guys moved into your neighbourhood !

[@aliraza1st]

Who's coming here after watching *'The Mitchells vs. the Machines'* ?

[@chloethehedgefoxchloeheart9170]

Me

[@melocoton9]

0:02 is the best part without a doubt

[@annecorey607]

They very nosing animals thank you for sharing your beautiful video

[@Cocamo1337]

Ima tell my kids this is Jojo's bizare adventure