apes
Example Sentences
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Novita was rescued by the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation, which has taken in several apes caught up in forest fires.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
The Indonesian government has requested India hand over the apes, forestry ministry spokesman Ristianto Pribadi told AFP on Friday.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
Photographs and videos widely shared online show the young apes sitting together on the forest floor and eating bananas, thousands of kilometres from the tropical rainforests where they belong.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
That distinction has influenced ideas about whether the human-chimpanzee ancestor should have possessed feet more like those of modern apes or monkeys.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
Many were cast down in ruin, but many more replaced them, and Orcs sprang up them like apes in the dark forests of the South.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
