apes

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Although there aren’t any other cooperative breeders among the great apes, there are South American treetop monkeys called marmosets and tamarins who do cooperate to raise young.

From Slate • May 10, 2026

Attenborough wanted to explain how the development of thumbs and fingers allowed apes to grip tools.

From BBC • Apr. 27, 2026

But he remembers doing so quite fondly in “A Gorilla Story,” a memoir of sorts, as well as a status report on the great apes of East Africa, still endangered, always terrifying.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Based on their findings, the researchers suggest that modern apes may have originated in northern Afro-Arabia, the Levant, or the eastern Mediterranean.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2026

If her life’s work was really to take care of these apes, wasn’t saving one the most important thing?

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer