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As our host informs us with some pride, Pablo went on to found a group of 65—the largest ape clan ever, we are told.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Speaking in a Nature on PBS documentary, Sir David Attenborough spoke of a huge ape that existed between six and five million years ago, the gigantopithecus.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
The area is home to the world's rarest great ape, the tapanuli orangutan, just 800 of which were believed to exist in the wild before the disaster.
From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026
The researchers say the ability to understand pretend objects appears to fall within the cognitive range of at least one enculturated ape.
From Science Daily • Feb. 10, 2026
I am a great ape, and you are a great ape, and so are chimpanzees and orangutans and bonobos, all of us distant and distrustful cousins.
From "The One and Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate
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