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A male Western Hoolock Gibbon has black fur with silvery A female Western Hoolock Gibbon differs from the male bywhite brows.having golden blonde fur but has similar silvery white brows.Madhya Pradesh. The average male, or stag, has antlers with over three tines, while the hind, or female has no antlers. Antlers can be 76 cm around the curve with a girth of 13 cm at mid beam.Besides the Kaziranga Five, the park hosts other notable threatened mammal species such as hog deer, hoolock gibbon, capped langur, and stump-tailed macaque, and birds such as Bengal Florican, greater adjutant, lesser adjutant, slender-billed vulture, and white-rumped vulture.For those seeking adventurous safari destinations other than Africa and looking for Asian wildlife, I can strongly recommend Kaziranga National Park in Assam, India.Three greater adjutants and a brown pelican, a wooly-necked stork, and a black-necked stork, feed in the same pond.Elite+ 45