Perth Zoo’s resident white-cheeked gibbons took no time at all to learn the ropes of their new habitat — so much so that zoo keepers have had to increase their food intake to fuel their active lifestyles.

The family of three — Kayak, Jermei and Lulani — have been making good use of their new digs since it opened almost four months ago.

Gibbons are an arboreal species, meaning they live in the tree canopy and are used to swinging between trees at great heights.

And the gibbon crossing has metres and metres of thick rope for the primates to swing, hang, twist and flip over water and between islands in their open-air enclosure.

“We have all these amazing, really long ropes which encourages them to brachiate, so that’s that full swing that you’ll see them do,” senior primate keeper Nene Ha

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