apes
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They compared anatomical traits from living and extinct apes, DNA from living species, and the geological ages of known fossils.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026
The apes were observed during the five minutes before the peanuts arrived, when they knew food was coming.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
More tolerant groups showed higher levels of reassuring touch, including what researchers described as "reassurance trains", in which multiple apes embraced one another in succession.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
"I'm playing Caesar in the first film, leading the apes to freedom and rebelling and breaking out of the facility," he recalls.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
They were way less famous than the other great apes, the chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans, even though a recent study showed they were our closest relatives, sharing over 98.7 percent of our DNA.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
