great ape in English

noun
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a large ape of a family closely related to humans, including the gorilla, orangutan, and chimpanzees, but excluding the gibbons; an anthropoid ape.
Today it comprises humans, the gibbons, and the great apes (orangutan, chimpanzee, and gorilla).
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1. This is a rare boost for the great ape.

2. Bonobos are a now endangered species of great ape

3. The Bornean orangutan is a critically endangered species of great ape

4. Some great ape of a sergeant, he's sent Barnsby's truck away.

5. Bonobos are members of the great ape family, along with gorillas, orangutans, and chimpanzees.

6. But orangutans are quite active, and the Great Ape Trust orangutans are no different.

7. When human infants are a year old, they favor place-based strategies like all the other great ape species do.

8. The two clusters evolved by duplication of an ancestral gene cluster before the divergence of the human and great ape lineages.

9. Chimpanzee is one of the African species of great ape and also the most social species of Apes along with Bonobo

10. 28 The two clusters evolved by duplication of an ancestral gene cluster before the divergence of the human and great ape lineages.

11. The Great Ape Trust is a 230-acre campus that is home to a scientific research program that studies culture, language and inteligence.

12. The new findings, he concludes, suggest "that the differences between humans and our great ape relatives aren't as marked as most people think.

13. One of many reasons for its creation was to protect the gorillas from deadly Ebola epidemics that have wiped out other great ape populations in Central Africa.

14. Nyota, the babysitting bonobo, has become especially close to his four-month-old baby cousin, Teco, according to the Great Ape Trust[sentencedict .com], which provided the below images.

15. The Bornean orangutan is one of only three species of orangutans; each is classified as a great ape and together they are the only great apes native to Asia.

16. The nearly intact skull, which has a flat face, jaw and teeth, may belong to a previously unknown species of great ape, said Salvador Moya , the chief palaeontologist on the dig.

17. The team, from Hayashibara Great Ape Research Institute in Okayama, Japan, lived and even slept in the same enclosures as the captive chimps, to ensure they would be there when they gave birth.

18. Beside him walked Zu-tag, the great ape, and behind them strung the surviving Anthropoids followed by Fraulein Bertha Kircher and Lieutenant Harold Percy Smith-Oldwick, the latter a thoroughly astonished and mystified Englishman.

19. The Bonobo (/ b ə ˈ n oʊ b oʊ, ˈ b ɒ n ə b oʊ /; Pan paniscus), also historically called the pygmy chimpanzee and less often, the dwarf or gracile chimpanzee, is an endangered great ape and one of the two species making up the genus Pan; the other being the common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)

20. Geographic Distribution and Habitat The peaceable Bonobo (Pan paniscus) makes its home in the lush rainforests of Central Africa, specifically within the borders of one conflict-ridden country—the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).A highly-threatened great ape, the Bonobo is confined to a limited, patchwork area comprising in total about 60,000 square miles (about 156,000 sq km).