ape

"People are making behavioral inferences from fossils, and some say a monkey can't vertically climb as well as an ape can," said first study author Luke Fannin, assistant professor of anthropology at Ohio State.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026

Of course, AI can ape us, and create things based on our patterns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Touching, embracing and kissing before stressful events may be an ancient way of building trust, according to scientists studying the behaviour of our closest ape relatives.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

The results may support a theory known as the estrogenized ape hypothesis.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026

“From the old forbidden books. The Premature Burial. And the others. The Pit, the Pendulum, and the ape, the chimney, the Murders in the Rue Morgue. In a book I burned, yes!”

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

The team also carried out biogeographic analyses to investigate where the common ancestor of all living apes most likely lived.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026

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

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

The apes were observed during the five minutes before the peanuts arrived, when they knew food was coming.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

The aids virus may well have jumped into the human race from African primates, from monkeys and anthropoid apes.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

“Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” aped that scene.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026

In the 1960s, a primitive chatbot that mindlessly aped a therapist had people pouring their hearts out to it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025

His misguided approach - often aped on the Accidentally Partridge social media account, which shares cringeworthy clips of public figures - is "provocative" but, Coogan hopes, "never mean-spirited."

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2025

Eggers’ “Nosferatu” succeeds because the director’s alterations to Henrik Galeen’s original 1922 screenplay, aped from Stoker’s novel with a few tweaks, are minimal.

From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2024

They aped teacher’s snarling manner when they spoke to each other.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

So at the same time as worrying about their male classmates "bottling things up", girls are also feeling scared about how some boys and men - aping Manosphere behaviours - might act.

From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026

Some analysts see Greenland aping Iceland’s success, combining tourism with fishing and cheap energy to attract tech companies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026

The group had started out as one of countless young English acts aping American R&B in the mid-’60s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2025

The plan is to craft something “safe and fun” that will “bring joy” to its users, especially “women and gay people,” at a time when other social media executives are aping norms of reactionary ultramasculinity.

From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2025

I realized that she was aping my grandmother.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou