great apes
Gorillas and chimps
Great apes are the largest primates: gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans, and humans.
The term usually excludes humans in casual usage, referring to our closest living relatives: The great apes share over 95% of their DNA with humans.
Distinguished from lesser apes (gibbons) by size, intelligence, and lack of tails.
Largest great ape
- orangutanLarge red-haired Asian ape
- chimpanzeeGreat ape, genus Pan
- bonoboCongo Basin great ape
- primateHigher mammal order member
silverback · troop · knuckle-walking · bipedalism · arboreal · brachiation · nest-building · prehensile
Mental ability, cognitive capacity
- problem-solvingAddressing challenges methodically
- self-awarenessInsight into one's psyche
- communicationExchanging ideas or information
- sign-languageCommunication through gestures
learning · memory · reasoning · empathy · culture · cooperation · teaching · planning
At risk of extinction
- poachingUnlawful wildlife capture
- extinctionComplete vanishing of a species
- deforestationLarge-scale woodland elimination
- bushmeatHunted tropical wildlife flesh
sanctuary · CITES · protected · reintroduction · rehabilitation · Borneo · Sumatra · Congo
gorilla
Largest great ape
- orangutanLarge red-haired Asian ape
- chimpanzeeGreat ape, genus Pan
- bonoboCongo Basin great ape
primate · silverback · troop · knuckle-walking · bipedalism · arboreal · brachiation · nest-building · prehensile · frugivore
intelligence
Mental ability, cognitive capacity
- problem-solvingAddressing challenges methodically
- self-awarenessInsight into one's psyche
- communicationExchanging ideas or information
sign-language · learning · memory · reasoning · empathy · culture · cooperation · teaching · planning · emotion
endangered
At risk of extinction
- poachingUnlawful wildlife capture
- extinctionComplete vanishing of a species
- deforestationLarge-scale woodland elimination
bushmeat · sanctuary · CITES · protected · reintroduction · rehabilitation · Borneo · Sumatra · Congo · ecotourism
- mammalsbears, bats, sheep, cats, anteater
- primatesape, baboon, baboons, monkey, monkeys
- human evolutionhuman evolution, hominid, hominids, hominins, hominin
- TarzanTarzan, Jane, Clayton
- Burroughs FictionTarzan, John Carter, flier, fliers, first born
- NeogeneMiocene, Pliocene, mastodon, saber-tooth cat, hominins
great apesmonkeys
Tailed primates, not apes
Old World monkeys · New World monkeys · gibbons · lemurs · marmosets
great apesdistant relatives
early mammals · reptiles · invertebrates · tree shrews · rodents
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