Critically endangered orangutan and gibbon

Critically endangered orangutan, pongo or jocko, Pongo pygmaeus, standing with branch 195, and endangered gibbon, Hylobates species, possibly the white-handed gibbon, Hylobates lar 196. Jocko, small gibbon. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Jacques de Seve from James Smith Barr's edition of Comte Buffon's Natural History, A Theory of the Earth, General History of Man, Brute Creation, Vegetables, Minerals, T. Gillet, H. D. Symonds, Paternoster Row, London, 1807

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