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	Ape - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Apes are the members of the Hominoidea superfamily of primates, including humans.
		The great ape family was previously referred to as Pongidae, and humans (and fossil hominids) were omitted from it, but on grounds of relatedness there is no argument for doing this.
		The Great Ape Project, founded by Australian philosopher Peter Singer, is campaigning to have the United Nations endorse its Declaration on Great Apes, which would extend to all species of chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans the protection of three basic interests: the right to life, the protection of individual liberty, and the prohibition of torture.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ape (1881 words)

	William H. Calvin, Portraits of Gibbons & Siamangs (2005)
		Apes are a branch of the Old World Monkeys that lost their tail, evolved very versatile shoulder joints, and doubled brain size.
		Apes are "super monkeys" and humans are "super apes," having developed upright posture in the last 6 million years and then tripled brain size over that of the great apes starting about 2.5 million years ago.
		Even in the lesser apes, one seldom sees the postures and facial expressions, so reminiscent of humans, that are frequent in the great apes (gorillas, orangutans, chimpanzees, and bonobos).
	williamcalvin.com /portraits/LesserApes.htm (430 words)

	biology - Ape
		The chief threat to most ape species is loss of tropical rainforest habitat, though some populations are further imperiled by hunting for bushmeat.
		Until about 1980 the hominoids were divided into three familes: humans and their extinct relatives in Hominidae, the great apes in Pongidae, and the lesser apes (gibbons) in Hylobatidae.
		This led to the placing of the great apes in the family Hominidae along with humans, by demoting the Pongidae to a subfamily; the Hominidae family now contained the subfamilies Homininae and Ponginae.
	www.biologydaily.com /biology/Ape (1341 words)

	ape -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Both apes and humans are members of the order Primates, which also includes the monkeys and the prosimians.
		Apes are distinguished from monkeys by the complete absence of a tail and the presence of an appendix and by their more complex brains.
		Sometimes called the red ape because of its long, reddish brown coat, or pelage, the orangutan is the largest arboreal, or tree-dwelling, animal in the world.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9309760?tocId=9309760 (724 words)

	Cryptozoology.com
		De Loy's "ape" was on the Colombia/Venezuelan border, probably about 700 miles away from Iquitos.
		De Loy's ape was probably a spider monkey, but there is some chance of finding cryptid primates there.
		Apes in South America - now that would be an interesting find.
	www.cryptozoology.com /forum/topic_view_thread.php?tid=1&pid=202871 (434 words)

	ipedia.com: Human Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Humans (Homo sapiens) are a species of great ape and the only surviving species of the genus Homo.
		The closest living evolutionary relatives to humans are the two species of chimpanzee: Pan troglodytes ("common chimp") and Pan paniscus ("pygmy chimp" or "Bonobo"), and to a lesser degree other hominoids such as orangutans and gorillas.
		Apes and even birds, for example, are known to "fish" for insects using blades of grass or twigs, and even to shape the tools for that purpose.
	www.ipedia.com /human.html (1849 words)

	Investigate Biodiversity - Lesser Apes
		Similar to the great apes, the gibbons lack a tail and have the same dental formula but differ in their smaller size, more slender form, longer arms, longer canine teeth, and the presence of buttock pads.
		When having to transverse short distances on the ground the lesser apes walk bipedely with their arms held upright.
		Priority must be given to establishing protected areas in suitable habitat for remaining populations of all lesser apes.
	investigate.conservation.org /xp/IB/speciesdiversity/classifications/lesser_apes.xml (550 words)

	Supersockmonkey.com - Monkeys of the World
		Apes are divided into lesser apes and greater apes.
		Apes vary in size from the 3-ft, 15-lb gibbon to the 6-ft, 450-lb gorilla.
		Apes are highly intelligent with the ability to use tools, solve complex problems, pass on information from one generation to another and even learn a language.
	www.supersockmonkey.com /catalog/monkeysoftheworld.html (858 words)

	Ape Fossils (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Great apes are thought - on the basis of genetic and other evidence - to have separated from another primate group known as the lesser apes some time between 11 and 16 million years ago (The lesser apes include gibbons and siamang).
		Scientists think the creature lived after the lesser apes went their own evolutionary way, but before the great apes began their own diversification into different forms such as orang-utans, gorillas, chimps and, of course, humans.
		The Miocene ape fossil record is patchy; so finding such a complete fossil from this time period is unprecedented.
	www.crystalinks.com /fossilsape.html (628 words)

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		While many of these apes provide specialized services to the group others seem to be the result of simian nepotism alone.
		This standing is used to force others within the group to comfort and support this ape even though he shows little to no discernible skills what so ever.
		However often these instances occurred within the group this particular useless ape was kept within it's place in the social hierarchy of the group.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=10439552&postID=110756338539994530 (323 words)

	WHITE-HANDED GIBBON
		Although all are sorely missed, it is perhaps Mommy who is missed the most as she had lived at the Philadelphia Zoo longer than any of the other lost primates, 34 years.
		The White-handed or Lar gibbon is the smallest of the apes, and is known as a lesser ape.
		As the smallest of all apes, fl-and-white handed gibbons move faster and farther than any other ape or monkey when moving in trees.
	www.courses.dsu.edu /lt726/classmates/Primates/contents/page1.htm (778 words)

	Human Evolution: Summary, sources & Dating Tools, by L. Evans
		Australopithecus was a bipedal ape with a small brain (450 cubic centimetres) and had massive molar teeth adapted to a diet largely of tough plant material.
		Apes were called "wild men" (Pliny, AD23-79) and chimpanzees as the "man of the woods" (Homo sylvestris) (Edward Tyson, 1699) and the "man of the forest" (Nicholaus Tulp) (Parker, 1992).
		A study of the bones shows a toe bone indicating that this creature walked upright and teeth that appeared to be evolving from apes to later human ancestors (The teeth are similar to animals that eat a mix of soft leaves and fiber-rich fruit (or root tubers)).
	www.ecotao.com /holism/hu_evo_intro.htm (7205 words)

	NYU - Press Release
		This controversial new model for the evolution of humans and apes is the cover story of the July 30th issue of Current Biology.
		Today, the lesser apes (gibbons and siamangs) and some great apes (orangutans) live in Southeastern Asia, while other great apes (gorillas and chimpanzees) live in Equatorial Africa.
		The lesser apes and orangutans subsequently dispersed out of Africa to Eurasia at different times, leaving behind representatives of the lineage leading to the gorillas, chimpanzees and humans.
	www.nyu.edu /publicaffairs/newsreleases/b_Human.shtml (638 words)

	Wolf Files
		Apes are a box office sensation, and while it may seem like cheap theater, you'd have a tough time counting up all the Oscar-winning actors and familiar faces who've taken a turn in a monkey suit or alongside co-stars who did.
		He is also one of the slave apes who take over Century City, Calif., in the apocalyptic final scene in Conquest of the Planet of the Apes.
		Ally McBeal's dad was an astronaut who crash-landed near Ape City in the short-lived TV incarnation of The Planet of the Apes.
	theforbidden-zone.com /news/wolffiles.shtml (1486 words)

	Online Dictionary for French English, Spanish English, Italian English, and more.
		Of less size or importance; "the lesser anteater"; "the lesser of two evils." 2.
		Smaller in size or amount or value; "the lesser powers of Europe"; "the lesser anteater." [ETYM: This word is formed by adding anew the compar.
		Quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree; "of less importance"; "less time to spend with the family"; "less than three years old." [Comparative of 'little' usually used with mass nouns] 2.
	www.ultralingua.net /?service=ee&text=lesser (586 words)

	Gibbons benefit from Great Ape Conservation Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The U.S. Congress enacted the Great Ape Conservation Act of 2000 (GACA) in response to the decline of ape populations in Africa and Asia, which are now at a point that their long-term survival in the wild is in serious jeopardy.
		The Act has two purposes: (1) to sustain viable populations of apes in the wild, and (2) to assist in the conservation and protection of apes by supporting the conservation programs of countries in which ape populations are located.
		To accomplish these purposes, GACA creates the Great Ape Conservation Fund (GACF) to support and provide financial resources to conservation programs of countries within the range of apes and to projects of persons and organizations with expertise applicable to the conservation of apes.
	www.tiho-hannover.de /gibbons/main/news/0208gaca.html (1069 words)

	Zoo's Beloved Siamang Ape Passes Away
		After living in both the old-style Ape House and Primate House for nearly 15 years, the pair was shifted in 1995 to an open, naturalistic habitat in the Trail of Vines.
		Throughout this year, the lesser ape had been treated intermittently for lethargy, poor appetite, weight loss and constipation.
		The largest of the 11 lesser ape species, siamangs pair-bond for life and form territorial areas which they guard.
	www.zoo.org /pressroom/pr/1997/saiburi.htm (550 words)

	Ancient Ape Discovered: Last Ape-Human Ancestor?
		The great apes—which later gave rise to humans and which now include orangutans, chimpanzees, and gorillas—are thought to have diverged from the lesser apes about 11 to 16 million years ago.
		Researchers have long been searching for the great ape ancestors that emerged after the evolutionary split between the great apes and the lesser apes.
		By studying the fossil bones, the researchers could tell that they belonged to an ape that shared many important similarities with modern great apes and humans.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2004/11/1118_041118_ape_human_ancestor.html (616 words)

	Gibbons (from ape) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Of slight build and usually less than 36 inches (91 centimeters) tall, they have exceptionally long arms, which they use to swing from limbs and vines in the dense upland forests in which they live.
		Gibbons, like the great apes (gorillas, orangutans, chimpanzees, and bonobos), have a humanlike build and no tail, but gibbons seem to lack higher cognitive abilities and self-awareness.
		They also differ from great apes in having longer arms, dense hair, and a throat sac used for...
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-212314?tocId=212314&ct= (697 words)

	University Update - Front Page
		The model argues that the ancestor of the living African apes and humans evolved in Eurasia, not Africa, a significant departure from the long-held view that the evolutionary history of the lineage leading to humans was confined to the African continent.
		Today, both the lesser apes (gibbons and siamangs) and some great apes (orangutans) live in southeastern Asia, while other great apes (gorillas and chimpanzees) live in equatorial Africa.
		According to the theory traditionally held by most paleoanthropologists, the hominoids evolved in Africa and the lesser apes and orangutans dispersed out of Africa to Eurasia at different times, leaving representatives of the lineage leading to the gorillas, chimpanzees and humans in Africa.
	www.albany.edu /updates/1998/9-2/frontpage.html (1482 words)

	Ape Classification - EnchantedLearning.com
		A cladogram of the greater apes; a branching diagram that depicts species divergence from common ancestors.
		The greater apes (family Pongidae, gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, and orangutans) split off from the lesser apes (family Hylobatidae, gibbons and siamangs) 20 million years ago.
		The chimpanzee is the animal that is closest to people genetically; people and chimps have very similar DNA (about 98% of human and chimpanzee DNA is identical).
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/apes/Classification.shtml (449 words)

	Mother Orang-utans Shot Dead So Infants Can be Traded as Pets
		The only surviving great ape outside Africa, the orang-utan is found only on the two islands of Sumatra and Borneo.
		Orang-utans are not the only ape whose survival is endangered by the pet trade in Borneo.
		There is a parallel trade in gibbons - a lesser ape that is a more distant relative of man. As with orang-utans, the mother gibbons are killed in order to obtain the young.
	www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines05/0912-02.htm (735 words)

	Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Eternal Savage
		One of lesser experience might have attempted to drive them away with menacing spear, or well-aimed hatchet, and thus have drawn down upon him a half dozen or more ferocious bulls against which no single warrior, however doughty, might have lived long enough to count his antagonists.
		Threatening and unfriendly as the apes seemed the cave man really looked upon them as friends and allies, since between them and his own people there existed a species of friendly alliance, due no doubt to the similarity of their form and structure.
		If the lesser ape folk would only let him come close enough to speak with them he might ascertain from them which were safe, but for some unaccountable reason they seemed to fear and mistrust him.
	trussel.com /prehist/savage.htm (12723 words)

	Evolved From a Lesser Animal?
		The creation model predicts that all ape fossils would be either fossils of living (extant) apes or fossils of extinct apes, which for some reason could not survive.
		This ape was named Homo habilis which means "handy man." However, more recent re-examination of the finger bones of this fossil ape has led scientists to conclude that the Homo habilis hand was "similar in overall configuration to chimpanzee and female gorillas."9
		They argue that during human evolution from ape to man, weaker individuals either died, or in other ways were prevented from having offspring.
	www.forerunner.com /forerunner/X0729_Evolved_from_an_anim.html (1929 words)

	Chimp Chatter (Glossary of Terms)
		Chimpanzees sometimes show anger or proclaim dominance by waving their arms, throwing branches or rocks, or charging.
		Humans, great apes and some other animals have opposable thumbs which give them precision grip.
		They also display intricate social behaviour, especially in apes like the gorilla and chimpanzee.
	sciencenorth.on.ca /chimp/glossary.htm (359 words)

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