apes

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The team analyzed data from 2,025 monkeys and apes representing 41 different primate species.

From Science Daily • May 18, 2026

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

For another thing facial hair is a sign that we have evolved from apes.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd