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Baby Gibbon Born at Lincoln Park
CHICAGO (AP) -- The biggest new attraction at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo is really very small.

It's a baby white-cheeked gibbon, a member of one of the world's most critically endangered primate species, and it was born Thursday at the zoo's primate house.

The infant's sex is still undetermined, but it is already on public display, along with its parents, 22-year-old Burma and 20-year-old Caruso. It's the third child they have produced since they came to Lincoln Park in the early 1990s.

The zoo's vice president for conservation programs, Steve Thompson, tells the Chicago Tribune the gibbons are native to tropical forests in southern China, Laos and Vietnam, many of which have been cut down in the past 50 years. He says the gibbon population has declined by 80 percent in recent decades.

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