great ape

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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

"They can't say how they're feeling and they can be quite good at masking how they're feeling," explained Marianne Paisley, a researcher from the University of Sussex who is studying great ape wellbeing.

From BBC • Oct. 12, 2025

The idea for this research came from about 15 years of working with captive great ape populations.

From National Geographic • Dec. 18, 2023

So, in French, I asked him if he could tell me where a great ape release site was nearby.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer