great ape
Example Sentences
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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
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
With him is a great ape: Big Foot.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
