Four of the five Great Apes are found here: Mountain gorillas, Lowland gorillas, Chimpanzees and Bonobos.
Signalling by gesture is confined to the great apes (who, in this context, include mankind).
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Few species land on their heel: bears, humans and great apes -- chimps, gorillas, orangutans.
There is an undeniable fascination about the Great Apes, among the most intelligent and socially organized of all animals.
The legislation imposes a general ban on the use of great apes, such as chimpanzees and gorillas, in scientific tests.
Since then, several groups have tried to test fairness in our closer and apparently more intelligent cousins - the great apes.
Some scientists are also calling for an international effort to decode the DNA of man's closest living relatives: the great apes.
At least some can, for example, recognise themselves in a mirror a trick that humans, great apes and elephants can manage, but most other species cannot.
His favorite charities promote great apes and gay and lesbian issues.
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It forms the baseline, he says, from which to move forwards and really explore why and when our genes and those of the great apes diverged.
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Having the entire length of the gorilla genome now means scientists can start to compare all the four great apes at every position on the genome, Scally says.
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African great apes such as bonobos (Pan paniscus) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) are known to use head gestures such as nodding, bowing and shaking to communicate with other group members.
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The life span for chimpanzees is 40 to 50 years in the wild and for those in captivity it is 50 to 60 years, according to the Center for Great Apes.
The idea of rights for whales is certainly a provocative one, and is reminiscent of the Australian philosopher Peter Singer's proposal that human rights be extended to the great apes chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orang-utans.
Cetacean brains are also, scaled appropriately for body size, almost as big as those of humans and significantly bigger than those of great apes, which are usually thought of as humanity's closest intellectual cousins.
The United States is one of two remaining countries -- the other being Gabon -- that legally allow chimps and other great apes to be used in invasive biomedical research, according to the Humane Society of the United States.
Only a day after their study was published in the journal Nature, the UN's environment and biodiversity agencies warned that some of the great apes - chimps, gorillas, and orangutans - could be extinct in the wild within a human generation.
The rocky great-apes enclosure is constantly surrounded by tittering schoolkids, pointing at the pink and blue posteriors on display in the baboon and mandrill pens.
His work on Rise of the Planet of the Apes was phenomenal and demonstrated a great ability to balance visual effects action with strong story and character development.
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We share a great deal of the biological equipment of sound production with apes.
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