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 ...

Los Angeles [US], February 14 (ANI): Cognitive biologists and primatologists have documented playful teasing in four species of great apes. Babies playfully tease each other as early as eight ...

Researchers found that all four species of great apes demonstrated “intentionally provocative behavior, frequently accompanied by characteristics of play,” according to the press release.

Unfortunately, that forest has been shrinking rapidly, putting the great ape critically close ... One of the three orangutan species, the Sumatran orangutan, is down to about 14,000.

There are four types of great apes alive today: gorillas (Africa), bonobos (Africa), orangutans (SE Asia), and chimpanzees (Africa). Humans are closely related to great apes, sharing a common ...

Great apes can do something with their hands that virtually no other species can. Most animals can only use their two hands, or paws, or hooves, symmetrically. They cannot perform asymmetrical ...

For all three species, the feeder resulted in increased feeding related ... Aside from sleeping and resting, wild great apes spend most of their time foraging, for example, gorillas 45 per cent ...

The order Primates consists of not only our closest relatives on earth, the seven great apes, but also over 450 species of monkeys, lemurs, lorises, and galagos. Primates are fantastically diverse ...

These species varied in their anatomy and ecology ... as seen among the living great apes and Miocene fossils. Like living apes it would have walked quadrupedally (on all fours) when on the ...

Biological anthropologists use genetic data to understand the evolutionary relationships that humans share with great ... species. Habitat variation may also contribute to local adaptation among apes.

Two great apes — one small ... However those investigations pan out, the coexistence of two types of apes at Hammerschmiede underscores Europe’s influential role in Miocene primate evolution ...