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

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

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

From National Geographic • Dec. 18, 2023

Before them, something like a great ape was sitting asleep with its head between its knees.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding