This undated handout picture released on Feb 16, 2024 shows a Skywalker hoolock gibbon in a jungle of Myanmar. - AFP
PARIS: Valentine's day is over but love's call lingers: the Skywalker gibbons' mating song, scientists reported this week, has revealed a previously unknown population -- the largest in the world -- of the endangered primate in the jungles of Myanmar.
When the Skywalker hoolock gibbon was first discovered in 2017 by a group of Star Wars-loving scientists, its only confirmed population -- less than 200 individuals -- was in neighbouring China's Yunnan Province.
