great ape

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The area is home to the world's rarest great ape, the tapanuli orangutan, just 800 of which were believed to exist in the wild before the disaster.

From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026

As exciting as this great ape baby boom is for L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2025

The idea for this research came from about 15 years of working with captive great ape populations.

From National Geographic • Dec. 18, 2023

"The great ape genomes tend to break and rearrange, and even human genomes have very unstable regions," Murphy said.

From Science Daily • Nov. 2, 2023

I am a great ape, and you are a great ape, and so are chimpanzees and orangutans and bonobos, all of us distant and distrustful cousins.

From "The One and Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate