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ape

[eyp] / eɪp /


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Also looking to art history is Colette LaVette, whose canvases at Gillian Jason ape rococo stylings in swirls of impressionistic paint.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

There was more to us, they said, than you could tell by watching the other 192 species of ape.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026

The species, named Masripithecus moghraensis, provides new insight into ape diversity during a key period when Afro-Arabia was becoming connected to Eurasia, allowing species to spread beyond Africa.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 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

So when a diprotodon, the largest marsupial ever to walk the earth, set eyes for the first time on this frail-looking ape, he probably gave it one glance and then went back to chewing leaves.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari




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