Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary, famed for its
hoolock gibbon population, is an isolated wildlife forest surrounded by tea plantations. With an area of around 20 sq km, it is in the south bank of the
Brahmaputra River in
Jorhat District,
Assam. This sanctuary was established with the aim to protect the hoolock gibbon, an ape species, in the country. There are about 40 species of mammals that live in the sanctuary. Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary protects capped langur, stump-tailed macaque, pigtail macaque,
Assamese macaque, rhesus macaque and
slow loris. It is also a habitat for elephant, leopard,
Chinese pangolin, Malayan giant squirrel, Assamese macaque and capped langurs.
