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 ...
Great apes have been put on lockdown against the threat of coronavirus. Gorilla tourism in Africa has been suspended, while sanctuaries for other apes, such as orangutans, have closed to the public.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
“Because we stayed, we found out things about the great apes that would have been impossible to find out in other ways. So, I think it’s that accumulation of data, of staying, that helps serve ...