great ape

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"Through strengthened domestic protection, climate-responsive planning, and global financial and technical assistance, we can still prevent the first modern extinction of a great ape species."

From BBC • Jun. 11, 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

As exciting as this great ape baby boom is for L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2025

Because all four great ape species used playful teasing, it is likely that the prerequisites for humor evolved in the human lineage at least 13 million years ago.

From Science Daily • Feb. 13, 2024

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