Orangutans are great apes native to Asia and live in the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra. They have long limbs and special feet with long toes for grasping branches ...

However, observations by Dr. Surbeck and his team, and those of other researchers, challenge the harmonious stereotyping of ...

Freedom for Great Apes, a Central Oregon sanctuary for primates, has closed its doors and transferred its remaining animals to a larger facility in Texas. Four chimpanzees who lived in the Tumalo ...

Though we don't look much like them, we humans have a lot in common with bonobos and the three other great apes—the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan. Compared to the lesser primates ...

At least that’s what worked for psychologists who set out to study the mind-reading abilities of great apes. Their new research, published in Science, shows for the first time that apes can ...

Three groups of great apes were studied. The first was a pair of orang-utans ... than either gorillas (10%) or orang-utans (9.4%). Figure 2. Mean per cent frequencies of behaviours for the two-hour ...

New research predicts the location of DNA sequences that can form structures besides the canonical double helix — non-B DNA — in the recently released telomere-to-telomere genomes of the great apes, ...

Great apes build platforms in trees to sleep on ... Making a Bonobo laugh - Animals in Love: Episode 1 - BBC One Sources: Radio 4 Natural Histories, BBC One Monkey Planet, BBC Earth, Dawn to ...

But after traveling some miles down the beach, Heston discovers the Statue of Liberty buried waist-high in sand, thus revealing the great secret that the planet of the apes is dear old earth after ...

Two great apes — one small, one large — coexisted in what’s now Germany 11.6 million years ago, a new study says Two lines of ancient apes, including what may be the smallest great ape yet ...