Four of the five Great Apes are found here: Mountain gorillas, Lowland gorillas, Chimpanzees and Bonobos.
We share a great deal of the biological equipment of sound production with apes.
Dr Pollick and Dr de Waal studied four groups of apes held in captivity.
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Signalling by gesture is confined to the great apes (who, in this context, include mankind).
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Ebola also may have started in bats before moving on to apes and people.
Birds, however, are remotely related to humans, and even monkeys are not as close as apes.
Few species land on their heel: bears, humans and great apes -- chimps, gorillas, orangutans.
This is especially relevant when we try to establish how smart apes are relative to children.
The couple have previously collaborated on Planet of the Apes, Big Fish and Corpse Bride.
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Different species (humans versus apes) have similar genomes but obviously quite different appearances and behavior.
The more fellow apes you need to understand, the bigger the mental engine you need.
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Frans De Waal: " Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes", Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
Animal Welfare Minister, Elliot Morley, said the transportation of apes was currently governed by EU regulations.
Baboons and chimpanzees both belong to which of these groups: apes, monkeys, or primates?
Apes even recruit other apes to collaborate with them, and will negotiate a fair distribution of pay-offs.
But, Dr Shultz said, overall, "non-human primates, apes included, are not very good at solving fairness problems".
Both the non-human apes and the human children tended to look where they thought the experimenter was looking.
When the apes made calls while in an atmosphere rich in helium, the team analysed the calls' frequencies.
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Gorillas, orangutans, and other chimps live with him in the compound, and Caesar quickly becomes a leader of apes.
Despite never having worked with big apes, he was asked to work with veterinarians to check the animals' hearts.
They preferred the latter based purely on family resemblance since they did not know any of the depicted apes.
These so-called "mirror neurons" might have given apes the mental power necessary to recognize subtle differences in hand gestures.
The apes would also consistently steal food from one another during the task.
There is an undeniable fascination about the Great Apes, among the most intelligent and socially organized of all animals.
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And I keep saying, in the ape community, they revere their gray apes.
The legislation imposes a general ban on the use of great apes, such as chimpanzees and gorillas, in scientific tests.
In West Africa, apes at several locations use wood or stone tools to crack nuts to feed on the kernels.
This communication system might have grown more complex after our own ancestors split from other apes 6 million years ago.
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