Orangutans belong to the Hominidae family, also called the great apes. They are highly intelligent and share around 96.4% of ...

She was wrapping up her Ph.D. on gestural communication in great apes, but this “didn’t really fit into any of the categories that I was looking at,” she told me. Years later, Cartmill ...

Raditz, Gohan, Vegeta, King Vegeta, Bardock - strong Great Apes in Saiyan race despite lack of screen time. Goku's Golden ...

The Southeast Asian island, home to some of the world’s strangest and most iconic creatures, is a dream for a growing number ...

The cerebellum is a section of the brain critical to tool use. Great apes have a cerebellum that is on average 45% bigger than a monkey’s. Experiments showed chimps and orang-utans using up to 5 ...

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 ...

Scientists suspect that contagious urination, a behavior they observed among a troop of apes in Japan, may play an important ...

Unfortunately, that forest has been shrinking rapidly, putting the great ape critically close to extinction. Orangutans only live in Southeast Asia, in the rainforests of Sumatra and Borneo.

Fascinating study reveals the self-awareness of wild baboons. Learn how scientists tested whether baboons can recognize ...